Third World illegals move into gated communities, ‘awaken’ white residents
By Marc Fisher
Nine years ago, John Stirrup says, he and his wife, Heidi, decided to move out of South Arlington because “our neighborhood was changing pretty drastically. There was a big gang presence, and it was beginning to get dangerous.”
“The final straw for me was when we found gang markings spray-painted on the trees,” he recalls. But he wasn’t about to walk away without taking a stand: At least twice, he caught the kids who were tagging trees, and he chastised them. They cursed him out and went about their business.
The Stirrups moved to Prince William County — to Haymarket, to the promise of open spaces, good schools and a community that shares their values.
If John Stirrup’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he has been a county supervisor since 2004. He proposed a measure to take action against illegal immigrants, and the county board passed a scaled-down version of it last week. The resolution that supervisors approved empowers police to check into the immigration status of anyone who is arrested and directs county agencies to determine which services they can deny to illegal immigrants.
What compelled Stirrup to act was the sense that his new home is changing in ways disturbingly close to what he experienced in Arlington. “Not in my neighborhood,” he says, “but when I visit the 7-Eleven, it’s the same feel as we had in Arlington” — a sense of being a stranger in his own community.
Although this story denotes a positive developement, European Americans United flatly rejects Mr. Fisher’s comparison of mestizo interlopers as being equivalent to our nations past European immigrants.
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