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LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pro-amnesty groups have staged protests in Prince William County, Virginia, to keep the county from cutting services to illegal aliens.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's unfair. I pay taxes like anybody else. My family pay taxes. Everybody pay taxes.
SYLVESTER: But in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, after 12 hours of public comment, the county board of supervisors unanimously voted to move forward with the plan, one of the toughest in the nation.
It denies services, including tax relief and mortgage and rental assistance, to illegal aliens, prevents them from obtaining business licenses, and allows local police to check the immigration status of anyone accused of breaking the law.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The most important thing about what this does is, it allows us to apprehend, arrest and place into deportation illegal immigrants who commit crimes inside of our community.
SYLVESTER: Many Virginia lawmakers say they're hearing from angry constituents, like Jack Bray (ph), who are fed up with picking up the tab of illegal immigration, overcrowded schools, jails and hospitals.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The taxpayers are the victims. Residents of Virginia are the victims.
SYLVESTER: On the state level, the Virginia Crime Commission's task force on illegal immigration voted to order local judges to deny bail to illegal aliens charged with a state or federal crime and to step up reporting of criminal illegal aliens to federal immigration authorities.
But the task force voted down a proposal to build what would have been a first, a state jail facility to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation.
(END VIDEOTAPE) SYLVESTER: Other communities are following Prince William County's lead. Two other counties, Loudoun and Culpeper, have introduced similar legislation cracking down on illegal immigration. But these new measures are likely to face legal challenges. A lawsuit has already been filed against Prince William County -- Lou.
DOBBS: Lisa, thank you very much -- Lisa Sylvester.
As local communities across the country are taking action that the federal government, under the direction, of course, of the Bush White House and the Bush administration, refuses to enforce U.S. immigration laws or, of course, despite what is now a six-year war against terror, to secure our borders, our ports.
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SYLVESTER: But in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, after 12 hours of public comment, the county board of supervisors unanimously voted to move forward with the plan, one of the toughest in the nation.
It denies services, including tax relief and mortgage and rental assistance, to illegal aliens, prevents them from obtaining business licenses, and allows local police to check the immigration status of anyone accused of breaking the law.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The most important thing about what this does is, it allows us to apprehend, arrest and place into deportation illegal immigrants who commit crimes inside of our community.
SYLVESTER: Many Virginia lawmakers say they're hearing from angry constituents, like Jack Bray (ph), who are fed up with picking up the tab of illegal immigration, overcrowded schools, jails and hospitals.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The taxpayers are the victims. Residents of Virginia are the victims.
SYLVESTER: On the state level, the Virginia Crime Commission's task force on illegal immigration voted to order local judges to deny bail to illegal aliens charged with a state or federal crime and to step up reporting of criminal illegal aliens to federal immigration authorities.
But the task force voted down a proposal to build what would have been a first, a state jail facility to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation.
(END VIDEOTAPE) SYLVESTER: Other communities are following Prince William County's lead. Two other counties, Loudoun and Culpeper, have introduced similar legislation cracking down on illegal immigration. But these new measures are likely to face legal challenges. A lawsuit has already been filed against Prince William County -- Lou.
DOBBS: Lisa, thank you very much -- Lisa Sylvester.
As local communities across the country are taking action that the federal government, under the direction, of course, of the Bush White House and the Bush administration, refuses to enforce U.S. immigration laws or, of course, despite what is now a six-year war against terror, to secure our borders, our ports.
Source:American Patrol Report:
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