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To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (20378)	3/1/2002 7:41:34 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

I have no idea how many Hispanic people get arrested for committing criminal acts in Fairfax. Enough that there are three full time Spanish interpreters on the court staff. Off the top of my head, they seem to come mostly from El Salvador and Honduras. No Nicaraguans as far as I am aware. Haiti, yes, but that's not Hispanic. I don't know whether they are legal or illegal. That's not relevant to anything I do. Fairfax has one of the most diverse immigrant populations in the country. Almost 300 languages spoken in Fairfax homes. We are a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., and the telecommunications industry is very big here, too. So is defense, aerospace, stuff like that. High tech. It's an expensive place to live. We tend to have more affluent people living here. The ones who aren't affluent have to work hard to earn enough money to live here. Lots of families where the dad works, the mom works, the grandparents work if they live here, the older kids work, and the younger kids are home alone unsupervised. The high school in our old neighborhood had gangs of black kids, gangs of Hispanic kids, gangs of VietNamese kids, even gangs of Sikh kids. I am a defense attorney, I've represented gang members, including one Sikh boy whose parents were very good people, and horrified. A white boy from that same school was just found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. He paid for another high school boy to murder a third high school boy who was his rival in drug dealing. We moved to a more expensive neighborhood so our kids would not have to go to that high school. It's still racially and culturally diverse. On my block is two black families, one Middle Eastern, one Chinese, one VietNamese, and three white. The Asian students do very well in school, as is the stereotype. I also handle divorce, wills, personal injury, bankruptcy, small corporations, litigation, discrimination, what have you - just hung up my shingle and take whatever comes through the door.

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (20378)	3/1/2002 8:18:48 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

They love the U.S. That enthusiam translates well to potential customers. And that's wonderful bonnuss.. Those are the kind of people I think we all want living in the US and becoming fellow citizens of this nation. After all, unless we 100% native american indian, we're all immigrants. My brother in law is Lebanese, and his family is incredibly hard-working and close, as well as being loyal Americans. Unfortuately, for every hard-working, law-abiding immigrant community, there exist the bad apples within it, who spoil it for the rest of the ethnicity. And it's in this regard where I believe we really must enforce the immigration laws more vigorously. There's no doubt that many immigrants might find it more difficult to move here, but it also sets the threshold a bit higher, and those that persevere in their dream to immigrate here, will eventually succeed. I just do not subscribe to the belief that the US is somehow required to take everyone who wants to move here. I'm sorry, but life isn't fair. Hawk