Wednesday, July 11, 2007

There's a prairie fire a' burnin...

...on the illegal immigration issue. Many people want action taken, to control our borders, to crack down. Both parties need to be aware of it; I'm not sure either fully is. So people are taking action locally. Here's the latest example:
Prince William County officials voted unanimously last night to move forward with one of the toughest immigration policies in the country. The eight-member Board of County Supervisors passed a resolution that requires police officers to ask about immigration status in all arrests if there is probable cause to believe that a suspect has violated federal immigration law. The resolution also requires county staff to verify a person's legal status before providing certain public services.

UPDATE: and this will only throw gasoline onto the fire---translating our electoral ballots into Chinese? And the Bush administration supports this kind of stuff? Fundamentally a bad idea.