Expanding the debate about illegal immigration
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Gregg Reynolds
Published: May 31, 2008
Our supervisors and county government are taking positive steps to ensure that Prince William County is a hate free zone.
Exposing hate expands the debate about illegal immigration and the serious problems that racism pose for our community.
Anyone interested in learning more about extremist nativist groups and the people that lead them can do so by visiting the following Web site.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=885.
Greg Letiecq, president of Help Save Manassas, is one of the 20 people listed on the site.
I want to thank Mr. Molleur for quoting my thank you letter to everyone in our community that took a stand against this kind of hate, and I respectfully disagree with his assessment that Mr. Letiecq has
saved the county money.
As I have said before, Mr Letiecq and his extremist, nativist organization have significantly harmed our real estate and business communities relative to surrounding jurisdictions.
Sadly, the long grass and broken windows have been caused by the exodus of many businesses and homeowners, which costs the county much more in lost tax revenue than money saved because we
now have fewer immigrant children in our schools.
Anyone can try to take credit for reducing crime in our community but crime has been on the decline for 10 years because of our excellent Prince William County Police and Human Services departments, not because of Mr. Letiecq. Interested readers can find out more about crime in Prince William County by visiting the following Web site.
http://www.pwcgov.org/docLibrary/PDF/007665.pdf.
Mr. Molleur also chooses to make no mention of the murder of immigrant Serafin Negrete, who was killed when two natives went out one night last year to “get a Mexican.”
He is survived by a young wife and two young daughters.
Mr. Letiecq recently made veiled threats of vigilantism when he addressed the Board of County Supervisors.
Sanctuaries are safe places where anyone can go when they are threatened.
One of the main reasons Fairfax County has only half the number of foreclosures when compared to Prince William, even though they are twice our size, is because Fairfax and Arlington are taking
positive steps to welcome immigrants into their communities.
GREGG REYNOLDS
Woodbridge
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on June 01, 2008 at 6:00 am
I fail to see what the board of supervisors
& county government have done to make Prince William County a hate-free zone.
They continue to endorse, by their silence,
the labeling of all illegal aliens, including children, as “criminals” when all that most have done is violate a “civil” law. After saying that only those detained by police would be subjected to interrogation as to citizenship, they now say everyone stopped by police will be interrogated. They do not say if everyone stopped by police will be informed of their “Miranda” rights; as required by law.
If positive steps have been taken, they can be delineated. I note that Mr. Reynolds has not done that.
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