I am concerned about any large number of people hanging out as there are inevitable scuffles and other problems (there was a stabbing at some point, too). You’ve got a crowd pretty much competing for scarce jobs. There’s not much order to it at all. It’s a tense thing. And I feel like our government has dropped the ball on keeping order, which is one thing they are supposed to try to do.

I think it’s a fair issue to question whether citizenship should attach by the geography of birth. But, under the Constitution, it does. That could be changed to another system, but it’s a gnarly Constitutional question that also has effects for our citizens abroad. In no circumstance could the policy be changed retroactively, so it doesn’t make any sense to start trying to distinguish between this sort of US citizen and that sort of US citizen.

So whatever the policy issues are of internal migration between jurisdictions, my guess is that “taxpayor dollars funding education of illegal immigrants” is not very high on the list. When someone shows me the data that prove my hunch about this wrong, I’ll look at the policy issues in a new light.

http://beta.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=313378&paper=82&cat=104

It’s only anecdotal evidence but I spoke to a teacher at a Centreville elementary school this week and was told they are seeing a “lot” of new students coming from the Manassas/Manassas Park area and they are expecting more.

NovaScout, I think you are naive. We also spoke to a young lady in our daughter’s class who just moved to Centreville from Woodbridge. If she’s here legally I wonder why she mentioned (rather innocently) that she can’t visit relatives in El Salvador because if she did she would not be allowed to come back????

NS, you may well be correct in that these children are likely US born citizen children of illegal aliens (aka anchor babies). These children’s education is as much a result of illegal aliens in PWC as if they had come across the border with their parents.

In fact, it is a DOUBLE slap in the face in that when the costs are totaled up, these children are counted in the column of US citizens when assessing costs of US citizens vs illegal aliens, and so the true costs of the illegal alien invasion is lessened.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Go to the IRS web site and download Form 211 - Application for Reward for Original Information. Fill it in with info on employers you think are dodging taxes by hiring illegals. Fill in everything except your personal info and mail it anonymously to said employer and watch him sweat.

The IRS used to list a Spanish version that was fun to leave on windshields at construction sites.

keep it polite

If 400 quite probable illegal aliens have enrolled in ESOL programs, it is a very real probability they will also enroll in many of the other services provided by the County (if they haven’t already).

Remember, this Fairfax County. Though not quite as outspoken as Arlington and City of Alexandria, the Fairfax BOS continue to aver that illegal aliens are an asset to the County, not a problem, and welcome.

There are already questions about the BOS’ PR message as each time the Budget is “re-visited,” a tax increase is usually the end result.

As a Fairfax County resident I am willing to take on this burden. This is NOT because I agree with Connolly and the BOS. Quite the contrary. We have to “feel” the financial burden first hand as Fairfax County encourages illegal aliens to avail themselves of a plethora of tax funded benefits and services to which they were never entitled.

Connolly’s and his Supervisor friends continue to tell constituents that Fairfax is in a financial position where it can absorb the “immigrants” seamlessly without denying legal residents any current benefits and services.

Recently, it was announced that the RE Tax Rate will increase by 3% to cover unforseen costs at the time the previous version was drafted. AND … many benefits and services to legal residents are being cut and/or cut back as part of the County’s “belt tightening” process.

The Fairfax BOS overtly presents the County as a safe haven for illegal aliens. However, there will come a breaking point when legal tax payers will realize our “leaders” are wrong and tell them so (as they have in PWC). Despite Connolly’s fantasy, Farifax County does not have an endless supply of tax dollars to provide for benefits and services for an every growing number of illegal migrating to the area demanding perceived entitlements.

I can’t speak for other Fairfax County legal residents, but IMHO addressing the growing concerns related to illegal aliens has fallen to local governments by default when Congress refused to get involved - with the exception of our Frank Wolf.

Herndon got the ball rolling by bringing to light the adverse effects on our community by illegal aliens. They took the full brunt of the wrath of apologists and liberal judges.

Help Saves have been organized and consolidated within the Commonwealth to form a voice that is now loud enough to be heard.

PWC’s crack down on illegal aliens by detaining and deportiing felons and denying benefits to which they are not enititled has brought to light that illegal aliens are NOT good for the country

Sorry I got long winded but I had a need to make a speech. ;>)

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The school system has 27 languages amogst its students.

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Bald eagles are flying around at day break

In the primary, dems had 300% more voters than republicans

You all can always immigrate to Canada

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Is it me, or does Gerry Connolly resemble a pig? Let’s hope he and other liberal-diseased pinkos get slaughtered in their next election.