Overcrowding Another Problem Traced Back to Illegal Immigration

"Ordinances governing single-family neighborhoods in Fairfax County have been flagrantly violated for years. For example, a house located on a quiet residential street in Annandale was retrofitted with two additional front doors - for a total of three - in full public view. Despite numerous complaints from neighbors, nothing happened . . . County residents have complained for years that absentee landlords were turning residential properties into illegal boarding houses, but local supervisors either ignored them or made feeble, ineffectual attempts at enforcement," says the Washington Examiner in an editorial. "One of the high costs of cheap labor, overcrowding is an unacknowledged - but inevitable - result of looking the other way as illegal immigrants flood Northern Virginia to work at jobs that pay higher wages than where they come from, but still not enough to afford the overheated local housing market. In an area where even police officers and teachers have trouble finding affordable housing, where do public officials think these undocumented workers are going to live?"

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