Immigration

DC suburb calls illegal immigrants ‘contributing members,’ will help fight deportation

By Paul Bedard
Published May 7, 2019 5:18pm ET
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DC suburb calls illegal immigrants ‘contributing members,’ will help fight deportation
Sharon Bulova is shown. | (Screenshot via Fairfax County Government / YouTube)

A large Washington suburb eyeing a $200,000 program to give taxpayer-funded legal aid to illegal immigrants said that deportations hurt it.

The chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in Virginia said the move was prompted by “the dynamic state of federal immigration policy.”

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