Reader: Ordinance should be passed

Mark Jaworowski
Stafford

Published: May 28, 2008

I do not mince words. I want Stafford County to do whatever it can to battle illegal aliens and to specifically target them by passing an ordinance to limit the number of unrelated persons living in a home. As a cofounder of Save Stafford, I have seen pictures provided by one of our members (who restores foreclosed homes) of residential housing turned into flop houses with rooms sub-divided and re-subdivided, to accommodate as many as 20 people in a “home.” Enough. 
This is America, and not the Third World. 

As was made evident by the recently published Stafford County Illegal Immigration Task Force, due to a hopelessly inept and out of touch federal government, there is very little our county can do to mitigate the skyrocketing costs illegal immigrants impose on the legal residents of Stafford County.  But whatever we can do - we must do. And I, and thousands of my fellow residents who have toiled and sweated throughout the years to be able to afford a nice home here, do not want Stafford County to deteriorate into patches of dilapidated shanty towns, or for it to become the playground of Mexican or El Salvadoran gangs simply because it might upset a warped sense of liberal altruism.  Pass an ordinance now, or face the increasing wrath of a citizenry rapidly losing its patience.