Stewart, Cuccinelli exchange fire over immigration policy

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Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart fired back at Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli over illegal immigration on Monday, saying that nobody — not even the pope — is going to stop his efforts to expand a hard-line immigration policy across the state. Stewart is pushing to expand to the rest of Virginia a Prince William law that mandates immigration checks for everyone arrested.

But Cuccinelli said in a legal analysis that a number of provisions in Stewart’s draft plan are redundant or unconstitutional, drawing a sharp rebuke from Stewart Monday.

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