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Posted on May 1, 2008 by Riley

Yesterday, we told you about just how wrong the WashPo got what happened in PWC the other night with regard to changes in their anti-illegal alien policies.

Today, the WashPo has these headlines:

Board Downplays Immigrant Policy Changes (online version)

Pr. William Board Says Crackdown Undiluted (dead tree version)

In this article, they do start to get it more right, but obviously still don’t fully understand it.

The Board of County Supervisors voted Tuesday night to direct police to question criminal suspects about their immigration status only after an arrest is made. The policy the board approved in October ordered officers to check the legal status of all suspects, no matter how minor the offense, if they suspected the person might be in the country unlawfully.

No, that is not correct. In October, the Board set forth a policy where police were only mandated to check a person’s status if they had “probable cause” to believe the person was an illegal alien. So, not everyone arrested (which does not necessarily mean taken to police lock-up) was being checked. Now, police are mandated to check a person’s status if he or she is arrested, thus resulting in more people being checked. Police still have discretion to question a person’s immigration status if they are stopped for a minor offense as they did before.  There was no change to that.

I don’t know what it is with these WashPo reporters and trying to make them understand simple concepts like this. Sometimes it is like talking to a brick wall.  Perhaps now that there is a reverse influx of illegal aliens from PWC back to the Fairfax and Alexandria neighborhoods where these reporters live that they’re trying to paint PWC as not as tough on illegal aliens as one might think and there’s really no need to move out of the jurisdiction after all.  Sorry, that train has left the station.  You’re stuck with it.

Filed under: Immigration, Media, Prince William County Politics

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One Response

  1. VA Patriot, on May 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm Said:

    I doubt any of these folks have had much instruction or done much reading in criminal procedure, but I’m sure it’s not too cumbersome to do a little research and consult the actual written policy before writing two incorrect articles on the subject….just a thought.

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