A Northern Virginia county at the center of the early fights over illegal immigration on Tuesday approved pursuing the Department of Homeland Security for information about what it did with the 7,000 illegals arrested in the county since 2008.
The Prince William County Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday approved the filing of a Freedom of Information Act request to force the agency to disclose whether illegal immigrants arrested and sent to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been deported, detained or released.
The push began last month, when board Chairman Corey A. Stewart said county police were reporting that they were encountering illegal immigrants who had already been arrested and sent to ICE. He said that about 10 percent of the people sent to ICE over the last seven years had been re-arrested for new crimes in the county.
“These are folks who have been arrested for a crime,” Mr. Stewart said. “The policy has always been aimed at troublemakers.”
Mr. Stewart previously said the county may sue the federal government if its information request is not satisfied.Read the rest of the story HERE and view related videos below:
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