Broken Borders: The Local Solutions

By Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq.
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Regardless of one’s view as to how the very real inundation of unlawful immigrants and unlawful prospective immigrants ought to be handled, it is clear that the Federal Government has not produced a clear and workable process which likely would lead to a solution. The country remains full of unlawful immigrants, with estimates varying between high and low gigantic numbers - namely, various millions.

For lack of a national plan or even the appearance of a national plan, numerous local jurisdictions have undertaken, and are undertaking, various attempts at solutions.

It is impossible to cite to a certainty which local county, city, town and other type of jurisdiction is the most recent to attempt some kind of local solution. Virginia Beach, perhaps to the surprise of people unfamiliar with Virginia, is Virginia’s largest city, with a year-round population of more than 425,000 residents. (Fairfax County is larger, with more than one million, but, while it has the characteristics of a city, legally it is a county, with the small City of Fairfax next door.) Virginia Beach appears to be the most recent major metropolitan jurisdiction to enact an attempt at control of unlawful immigration.