Petition on controversial immigration panelist pick packs meeting

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Prince William County residents packed the Board of Supervisors chambers Tuesday night to petition the supervisors over their appointment of a vocal immigration critic to a county panel.

The petition, presented by Haymarket resident Elena Schlossberg, has garnered more than 70 signatures and calls for supervisors to explain individually the reasoning behind their vote naming Robert Duecaster, an officer in the anti-immigrant group Help Save Manassas, to the county’s Human Services task force.

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