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Extreme xenophobia--now extended to consuls--permeates reports of a Virginia county. A Washington Post report of March 29, 2008
transfers that hostility to an inquiry by a county council chair about a meeting of
immigrants, the county police chief and the Mexican consul.
Coolly, the police chief notes in response to a question whether the meeting was
cleared with the United States Department of State that he did not set out to
renegotiate NAFTA. The meeting is described as a county-required outreach effort to
explain local enforcement of immigration policy to foreigners in Prince William
County, Va.
The consul's role is described as facilitating the meeting.
Aside from the council - consul - cop interaction, the article notes an odd comment
from an immigrant: For a person illegally present in the United States for ten years, a
traffic stop can result in deportation proceedings. As if that should come as a
surprise. Consuls can only do so much. -- Clemens
Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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