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October 11, 2007
 
 

Lawsuit Targets Prince William Immigration Enforcement


"Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit yesterday targeting Prince William County's closely watched crackdown on illegal immigration, arguing that a measure ordering police to check the immigration status of people in custody violates federal law. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, asks a judge to declare unconstitutional a controversial resolution that the Prince William supervisors passed in July. Before the largest crowd to attend a board meeting in two decades, the supervisors heightened immigration enforcement by local police and attempted to curb public services for illegal immigrants," the Washington Post reports. "Corey A. Stewart, chairman of the Board of County Supervisors, said the resolution was 'crafted very carefully, and we are confident it will withstand this and any other legal challenge.' He accused the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, one of the organizations that filed the lawsuit, of threatening county officials with a legal challenge before the resolution was passed."

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