Fear and Loathing in Prince William County

It’s crunch time in Prince William County. The crackdown on illegals has just started, and of course the Washington Post has picked sides with an article full of complaints and “sob stories of the undocumented.”In the article of just over 750 words, Post staff writers Pamela Constable and Nick Miroff manage to get quotes from two different representatives from the same hard-core open borders group “Mexicanos Sin Fronteras” or in English, “Mexicans Without Borders.” What a coincidence.

To give you some context for Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, the group’s leader, Macrina Cardenas, has been previously quoted in Socialism and Liberation Magazine as saying:

“Our central objectives are permanent residency for all undocumented workers residing in the country and the establishment of legal channels for future waves of immigrants.”  

Today, Ricardo Juarez, one of the group’s spokespersons quoted for this article, takes a whack at County officials and the law abiding citizens who support their efforts “They say this will not be a witch hunt, but we think it will be a silent and gradual witch hunt.”

Read the whole irritating thing here including the part where even though Prince William County has been pretty darned good to Santos Perdomo 38, a legal resident who owns a business and two houses in the county, he’s still mad. “This law has ruined all the good feelings. When I came here 12 years ago, my neighbors sent me pies. Now they look at me differently.”

Did he say pie? I could go for some pie.

Prince William County VA begins crackdown today.

Prince William County’s crackdown on illegals who break the law begins in earnest today. (Let’s not forget that illegal immigrants already broke the law when they entered the country illegally…)

Prince William County is a suburb of Washington D.C.. Naturally, the Washington Post, which never complains about millions in government overspending on hundreds of social programs around the region, is very concerned about how this is going to blow the county’s budget.

While “immigrant rights” groups such as Mexicans Without Borders plan their court challenges, highlighting budget worries has been the media’s preferred means of attacking the measure.

But of course, one of the costs is $3.1 million for installing dashboard cameras in each of the county’s 250 police cruisers so that the county can better defend itself from the inevitable law suits for “racial profiling.” That’s in the first year alone. The county will also be spending more money on “foster care services for children displaced from their parents.”

Read the whole thing here, including the part where County Supervisor Martin E. Nohe (R-Coles) says of Prince William County’s adventure in dealing with illegal immigration:

“We are the national poster child for local government getting involved in immigration. Whatever we do is going to be praised. Whatever we do is going to be criticized. There’s a decent chance we are going to get sued. We can’t screw up.”