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07/23/2007: "Innocent liberal converted to anti-immigrant stance by experience"

If John Stirrup’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he has been a county supervisor since 2004. He proposed a measure to take action against illegal immigrants, and the county board passed a scaled-down version of it last week. The resolution that supervisors approved empowers police to check into the immigration status of anyone who is arrested and directs county agencies to determine which services they can deny to illegal immigrants.

What compelled Stirrup to act was the sense that his new home is changing in ways disturbingly close to what he experienced in Arlington. “Not in my neighborhood,” he says, “but when I visit the 7-Eleven, it’s the same feel as we had in Arlington”—a sense of being a stranger in his own community.

In his resolution, Stirrup summed up that sense in one word: “lawlessness.” But with the county’s crime rate falling steadily in recent years, I asked what exactly he meant.

“Lawlessness was a good word, because it really describes what people are enduring here,” he says. “They wake up in the morning, and the house across the street has nine or 15 people living there instead of four. There are unregistered vehicles in the driveway and trash in the yard. We’ve seen a significant increase in rats. These individuals get in their cars, without license or insurance, and drive on our roads to get to jobs where they are paid off the books and under the prevailing wage, without benefits. On the weekends, there’s extensive consumption of alcohol, loud music, and the comments women have told me about from the men are really unbelievable.

[ Immigration turns good people into a bad influence, and turns good natives into bigots. Multiculturalism is the problem. ]

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/07/the_melting_pot.php