Herndon Elections On Tuesday
By Greg L | 6 May 2008 | Fairfax County | 2 Comments
The Town of Herndon has an important choice today. Town residents can either stand fast and continue to discourage the unlawful presence of illegal aliens in their community, or they can welcome them back by electing a Mayor and Town Council that will without any doubt reestablish publicly-funded employment centers to allow illegal aliens who cannot be legally employed to be matched with employers who cannot legally hire them. In the past several years the Town under the leadership of Steve DeBenedittis has managed to reverse the decline of the town by taking strong action to discourage the unlawful presence of illegal aliens, and that has resulted in significant benefits for the town.
What Herndon’s new mayor and council have accomplished in the last twenty months is absolutely phenomenal and should serve as a shining example of what committed elected officials can do to protect their community from the illegal immigrant invasion. Herndon became the first town in the United States to get their police officers trained to enforce federal immigration law under the 287(g) program, required business license applicants to certify that they are legally present in the U.S. and required town vendors to certify that illegal immigrants will not work on town contracts, and managed to get the publicly-funded day laborer center which was attracting ever more illegal aliens to the town shut down. Residential overcrowding and illegal boarding houses have been reduced by two-thirds, day laborers no longer plague the commercial district, and the quality of life in Herndon has been largely restored to what it had been. Not a bad record for a group of elected officials that their adversaries claimed would fail miserably because of their inexperience.
Electing Harlon Reece as Mayor or his cohorts on the Town Council would certainly reverse all the progress made in recent years to reduce residential overcrowding, restore the rule of law, and repair the quality of life in this community. Mayor Steve DeBenedittis and the Town Council have stood firm against efforts to reverse Herndon’s policies (such as the march in the picture above) that would encourage illegal aliens to return to Herndon. Arrayed against him is a group that was rejected by the electorate in the last town elections, and whom have complained ever since that ending public support for day laborer centers and enforcing the law is somehow a bad idea.
Mayor DeBenedittis and council members Dennis Husch, Connie Hutchinson, David Kirby, William Tirrell and Charlie Waddell are joined by James Vickery to continue the town’s responsible efforts that have rescued this community. They deserve your support. Just when the positive effects of enrolling in the Section 287(g) Program and shutting down the town’s day laborer center are starting to demonstrate such positive effects is no time to welcome back illegal aliens who will without a doubt return this town to the misery and lawlessness that ran rampant before.
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This is so ignorant !!!
The people spoke and the winner was Mayor DeBenedittis. Obviously the majority wants what this mayor, and council, have been making a priority. The mayor realizes that the people believe that illegal immigration is a MAJOR problem and he is attempting to resolve the problem. The majority of the constituents do not want the loitering, the crime, the non-English signs (and conversations). Obviously there is NO attempt to truly assimulate into our society, so it’s time to send the illegals to their home country