Latino religious leaders vow to sue county illegal resolution.

Immigration: I wonder if they are tax-exempt?

About 500 people rallied yesterday against recently passed anti-illegal immigrant measures in Prince William County, and Latino religious leaders threatened a federal lawsuit and local boycott if the county does not rescind or alter its resolution cracking down on undocumented residents. Leaders of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, which organized the event, said they hope to meet with county officials in the next two weeks to alter the resolution. But barring significant changes to the measure, which was passed unanimously last month by Prince William supervisors, they said they will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court. The coalition also has a lawsuit pending against the township of Riverside, N.J., which passed a measure last year that aims to put pressure on landlords and employers who cater to illegal immigrants. A similar ordinance was struck down last month by a federal judge in Hazelton, Pa., and Sanchez said his group is also considering suing Oklahoma over sweeping anti-illegal immigrant legislation signed into law there in the spring.

"Undocumented residents" Washington Posts liberal staff is so cute in trying to downplay serious problems. Even Liberal counties in the area is getting a bit wary of illegals. Pay attention to the code words in this piece.

Even in these relatively liberal counties, considered friendly to their foreign-born populations, immigration threatens to become a wedge issue. "I worry that if we're not careful, we could have very long-lasting divisions," Leggett said in an interview. Such divisions have emerged in many of the counties farther from Washington. This week, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold (R) issued an executive order declaring that the county would sever contracts with any business caught employing illegal immigrants. The order is largely symbolic -- it includes no enforcement measures -- but underscores the county's growing unease on the issue. In Loudoun and Prince William, leaders voted last month to mandate studies of what public services might be lawfully denied to undocumented residents. Fairfax's more measured approach is counterproductive, Prince William's board chairman said yesterday. "They have clearly been the laggards," Corey A. Stewart (R) said. "If Fairfax doesn't begin to crack down on illegal immigration, they are quickly going to find themselves as the illegal immigrant sanctuary in Northern Virginia, particularly for the criminal element."

Here is the problem for these libera counties, the more other counties pass measures or even talk about passing measures cracking down on illegal aliens, the chance raises these counties become more a place where illegals come to stay.

The political action in Virginia's outer counties has also emboldened opponents in older neighborhoods, where some fear their communities will become magnets for undocumented immigrants if leaders fail to act. "The majority of county taxpayers do not support the ongoing inflow of an uneducated, aggressive population that seeks as many services as it can get while avoiding paying taxes in order to feed its ignorant sense of greed," Silver Spring resident Sandra Pontius wrote in an e-mail to Leggett. Ellen Albert, president of the Winterset Varsity Civic Association in Annandale, said an association meeting does not go by without a discussion of how illegal immigrants are "draining our resources." Albert, a computer consultant who is a Democrat, said residents feel "like strangers in their own land," overwhelmed by signs in foreign languages, neighbors who do not speak English and gang graffiti.

Well now, can't have people being scared of gang graffiti popping up. They must be racists or something.