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Culpeper takes on immigrant influx
Culpeper makes English its official language, asks state to help it deal with undocumented immigrantsDate published: 8/8/2007 By Steve Jenkins BY DONNIE JOHNSTON Culpeper County supervisors haggled over any number of somewhat trivial matters yesterday, but were tight-lipped when approving two immigration-related matters. Without a single comment, the board unanimously approved a resolution declaring English to be the county's official language. Moments later, they resolved, again without discussion or dissent, to join other counties in seeking the General Assembly's help in grappling with problems caused by undocumented immigrants. While the town of Culpeper has been in the thick of the immigration debate for almost a year, yesterday's action was the first taken by the Board of Supervisors on the controversial issue. "It has been discussed in rules for several months," County Administrator Frank Bossio said after yesterday's meeting. "I think this is part of a discovery motion to see what the cost of all [the services rendered] are to our constituents." Bossio said letters and a copy of the resolutions would be sent to a list of people and jurisdictions supplied, in part, by Culpeper Town Councilman Steve Jenkins, who has been pushing the town to deal with undocumented residents. Both Loudoun and Prince William counties have passed similar resolutions in the past several months. As for English being formally declared the county's official language, Bossio said this was not an attempt to slight anyone, but rather a statement to inform everyone that Culpeper would not be responsible for providing translations of any sort. Bossio said he did not yet know how or where the "official language" resolution would be posted, but said it would likely be printed in area newspapers. More than a dozen people--including Jenkins--showed up last night at the Board's planning business session to urge the supervisors to take action against illegal aliens. Those who spoke during a public forum asked the supervisors to do something before it was too late. In other business yesterday afternoon, the board: Approved an architectural plan to renovate the Wachovia building on Main Street into offices for the county treasurer and commissioner of revenue. The registrar's office would be upstairs and the assessor's offices in the basement. Voted unanimously to advertise for a public hearing on the possibility of developing an ordinance on the purchase of development rights. Heard that, because of the continued influx of vehicles into the county, car-tax relief for fiscal 2008 will drop from 38 percent to 36 percent. Donnie Johnston:Email: djohnston@freelancestar.com
Read more stories about Culpeper Date published: 8/8/2007
While I don't live in Culpepper
(posted by
patrick4hp
, Oct. 13, 2007 11:23 am)
so I don't have a stake in this, still, all these posts again prove my point, this is all about racism also. When I lived in Alexandria 15 years ago, we had this problem and now that is coming into Central VA, same arguements reign about Spanish and the New American's culture. And, he's right, most of them are legal, you don't have an illegal stamp on people's foreheads. And, because of all this talk, migrant workers are hard to find to pick agriculture. Your bigotry is showing, costs us at the grocery.
Useless
(posted by
dhensley
, Oct. 12, 2007 5:54 pm)
Why is our government spending our time and money on useless acts like this? Isolationism does not work.
I STAND UP AND APPLAUDE CULPEPER
(posted by
angelo
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
I agree with quite a few of these posts. They need to go back where they came from and ru4real should lead the way and stay there with them since she/he supports them more than Americans and America. Are you an illegal? Why should we post signs, etc, for them? The money used for that could go to schools for our children. They are in the USA speak English! While being bilingual may show intelligence, supporting illegals shows how STUPID you are. Keep America beautiful, DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW!!
It sickens me
(posted by
ru4real
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
to read all these hatefilled biggoted posts. Illegal aliens may be a problem, but you can't assume that all Hispanics buying groceries at Wal-Mart or anywhere are illegal. How do you know? Illegal isn't written on people's foreheads. For those that rant about the Spanish language, it just shows how narrow-minded you are. Being bilingual, or multilingual is a sign of intelligence. Sure all Hispanics could be required to learn English, but learning Spanish would only be a benefit to any who chose to do so.
Languages
(posted by
Evander
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
Let's face it, folks! This horse is already out of the barn and he has run way over the hill... and he ain't coming back. Those who speak Spanish are here, whether legally or illegally, and learning to speak Spanish will be a benefit... maybe not a necessity, but a benefit. Those in other countries speak multiple languages because they live near multiple cultures. Guess what, now we do too!
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