Loudoun’s illegal immigration problem: a report from the front lines

Joe B. over at novatownhall Blog has an absolutely stellar post detailing his personal experience with the illegal immigrant problem here in Loudoun County complete with pictures, histories, and all the trimmings. It’s a positive must-read for anyone even remotely interested.

His details on the workings of Loudoun’s government as regards this issue (or, should we say, lack of workings) are quite valuable and raise some very interesting questions. Like why does all of Loudoun County, with a population 10 times that of neighboring town of Herndon, have only 1 spanish-speaking Zoning investigator when Herndon has 8? Herndon has worked their caseload down tremendously and they’ve handled quite a bit of the blight and zoning and immigration violations. Loudoun, apparently, hasn’t. Can’t or won’t? Another one is how a person who works part time at an “immigration law firm” manages to get employed as an inspector whose job it is to investigate whether zoning violations spawned from immigration issues have occurred? Certainly gives the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Where is the Commonwealth’s Attorney on this? Where is the manager for the zoning office? And, if he’s not doing the job, where are the Supervisors who are supposed to be making sure the organs of government are working as they should?

As they say, read the whole thing. Be sure to read the comments, too, for Joe’s update regarding a call to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).