A bill sponsored by a Northern Virginia legislator would give state and local police agencies the power to arrest illegal immigrants.
Del. David Albo, R-Springfield, said he filed the bill this year because state and local authorities currently cannot hold an immigrant who is in the country illegally since immigration law is a federal responsibility. Police, he said, have had to release immigrants they thought we were in Virginia illegally if federal agents did not want to pick up the suspects.
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