Maryland Town Will Help Illegal Aliens, Undeterred by Herndon Vote
"The electoral defeat of three Herndon politicians who supported a day-laborer center was perceived nationally as a warning to other elected officials.
But in Gaithersburg, about 30 miles away, City Council members said they won't be deterred from opening their own facility. Anti-illegal-immigration groups were emboldened by the outcome of Herndon's election. Some local activists said they saw Gaithersburg as a fertile battle ground to continue their fight against such centers, which seek to help immigrants -- some of whom are illegal -- find jobs," the Washington Post reports. "'Hopefully, the Herndon example will ring a few bells in communities that seem to be a little harder of hearing,' said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit group that wants to stop illegal immigration."
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