State task force proposes new jail for illegal immigrants - Virginia

Posted on: September 27th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Virginia ]
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“A state task force charged with strengthening enforcement of immigration laws offered 11 recommendations Tuesday, including building a 1,000-bed jail to house violators who currently are being ignored by law enforcement.

“Some of you will agree with some of them and some of you will disagree,” Sen. Kenneth Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, said Tuesday at the monthly meeting of the State Crime Commission Illegal Immigration Task Force.

Immigration advocates told the task force that toughening immigration enforcement would have a “chilling effect” on crime victims and witnesses who may be in the country illegally”

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