Elena speaks with Channel 7 News:
According to insidenova.com, the county has filed suit against the federal government.
Prince William County filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Homeland Security, according to a county press release.
In 2007 the Prince William Board of County Supervisors passed an ordinance that requires county police officers to check the immigration status of anyone they arrest.
If police find that they have arrested someone who is in the country illegally, they turn that person over to the department for deportation.
To date the county has turned over more that [sic] 4,000 people over to DHS, the release stated.
At issue is the fact that an illegal immigrant who was an habitual offender hit a car carrying 3 elderly nuns. One nun was killed and the other 2 were seriously injured. The sisters belong to the Benedictine order and requested at the time of the tragedy that people not use the death of the sister to advance their political viewpoint. The politicians and anti-immigration crowd of Prince William County have ignored the sisters’ request and have done quite the opposite.