William’s rights body airs warning

October 19, 2007  --  Got something to say?
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The Prince William Human Rights Commission has warned that the countys tough new policies on illegal immigration could lead to racial discrimination and costly litigation that would mar the countys reputation. A subcommittee of the commission was convened in July after the Board of County Supervisors unanimously approved the most aggressive local measures in Virginia against illegal immigrants. Its report was released in advance of the board meeting which took up supervisors plan to vote on

proposals that would curb access to specific county services for illegal immigrants and police policies designed to increase residency checks and deportations.

According to the report, the measures would be burdensome to legal residents, expensive for county taxpayers and do little or nothing to relieve the longer term, underlying problems of assimilation.” The report compares the policies with past discrimination in the United States against Native Americans and African Americans, claiming that Prince William County has been fractured in ways not seen since the1950s.


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