Immigration law’s impact on Virginia county
Well before there was the immigration law in Arizona, there was Prince William County, Virginia. In 2007, The Northern Virginia county passed an ordinance that authorized police to check the immigration status of people they detained. Three years later, The World’s Jason Margolis looks at the effects of the ordinance.
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