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May 15, 2007
 
 

Fairfax, VA Residents Find Illegal Immigration Impacts Their Home Values


"Harry Gault doesn't think of the small ranch home next door as a hot-button political issue in this year's Fairfax County election or realize how frequently his complaint is heard throughout the region. 'I don't mind an Hispanic neighborhood,' said Gault, 73. 'But they've turned a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home into a nine-room boarding house,'" the Washington Post reports. "Long a source of tension in the suburbs, where high prices force many immigrants to pool financial resources and share housing, residential crowding has generated a surge of complaints in Fairfax, a county where one in four residents is foreign-born."

"Open-borders liberal types, especially those quick to preach diversity and call anyone who disagrees a racist, don’t have my sympathy. I’m glad this is happening to you. I’m overjoyed that illegal aliens are ruining your neighborhoods and schools. I’m ecstatic that you have to worry about what those 20 'undocumented' men living next door might do to your daughters. I hope the mere thought keeps you awake at night," says LaShawn Barber.

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