Why so many Latinos in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

Also to answer the OP's question, Fairfax county only became inundated with hispanics the past decade or whenever gentrification and rising housing came to be. Arlington county used to be maybe 60 percent hispanic that number dwindled as more of my hispanic friends sold their north arlington homes for a high price and moved to cheaper condos in fairfax county or maryland

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Anonymous wrote:Because there are jobs for them, and because it is a nice place to live.

They are not all on public assistance. They live in the neighborhoods you probably never go to, and have lower standards of living than you do.

But you probably already knew this.

NICE place to live? And you talk about the neighborhoods OP doesn't go to? Sounds like you are implying self contradictory things.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids share bedrooms, parents sleep in living room on couch. Extended families live together in one house. Pretty much just less space per person.

Tell me about it. Down the street is some sort of mass tenement situation in what was previously a SFH. I kid you not, 15 - 20 cars parked in front. Can't be more than a 4 bedroom. Lawn is a disaster, garbage everywhere, windows are outfitted with broken blinds. It is a blight.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids share bedrooms, parents sleep in living room on couch. Extended families live together in one house. Pretty much just less space per person.

Tell me about it. Down the street is some sort of mass tenement situation in what was previously a SFH. I kid you not, 15 - 20 cars parked in front. Can't be more than a 4 bedroom. Lawn is a disaster, garbage everywhere, windows are outfitted with broken blinds. It is a blight.

Yep.. as a latina it annoys me too! Makes every other color person think we are illegal and live like a pack rat

[Anonymous]

Because Fairfax County doesn't enforce housing codes.

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Anonymous wrote:Same poster from above....

Here is another example of an illegal immigrant who had served 17 years in prison for attempted murder, and was released back to his sanctuary city in Connecticut. He went on to brutally murder a 25-year-old young woman. (I could find many more examples, but I think I've made my point.)

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/u-s-failed-3-times-to-deport-illegal-alien-who-murdered-woman/

OK, but you posted about FFX county, so I asked about violent illegal immigrants that FFX county was harboring.

The case in CT was the fault of ICE because they failed to deport him 3x. He was in prison for 17 yrs, and when he was released, ICE was supposed to deport him. And they didn't.

I take it you didn't completely read that link because there is a VA case there:

"Judicial Watch also investigated the 2010 case of a drunken illegal alien who killed a nun in Virginia and sued DHS to obtain records. The Bolivian national, Carlos Montano, had a criminal history but federal authorities released him on his own recognizance after two previous arrests."

Again, it wasn't the county that failed. It was ICE. States and counties *cannot* deport people.

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Anonymous wrote:Because Fairfax County doesn't enforce housing codes.

+1. This is a huge part of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Thing is that Trump has a point when he says we are getting the worst of the worst and I say this as a hispanic. I asked a relative from Chile why people from our city never come to the US but only the poorest of the poor country folk who have no education and disregard for the law in their country and when they come to the US illegally and they just said that since they don't live in the capital or the 'rich areas' of their home countries then the process to obtain a visa is quicker without an interview even that is required from the educated wealtheir people who live closer to the capital.

Seriously, PP, you had to ask about this? This isn't rocket science. People who are in comfortable circumstances don't often uproot or separate from their families and move to foreign countries where they know no one, don't speak the language, and have to work cleaning other people's houses or doing migrant work.

This has been happening from the very beginning of our country. One of my great-great-etc grandfathers came to America as an indentured servant, more than 300 years ago. You think he would have come if he'd been landed Irish gentry? Not likely.

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Anonymous wrote:Thing is that Trump has a point when he says we are getting the worst of the worst and I say this as a hispanic. I asked a relative from Chile why people from our city never come to the US but only the poorest of the poor country folk who have no education and disregard for the law in their country and when they come to the US illegally and they just said that since they don't live in the capital or the 'rich areas' of their home countries then the process to obtain a visa is quicker without an interview even that is required from the educated wealtheir people who live closer to the capital.

Seriously, PP, you had to ask about this? This isn't rocket science. People who are in comfortable circumstances don't often uproot or separate from their families and move to foreign countries where they know no one, don't speak the language, and have to work cleaning other people's houses or doing migrant work.

This has been happening from the very beginning of our country. One of my great-great-etc grandfathers came to America as an indentured servant, more than 300 years ago. You think he would have come if he'd been landed Irish gentry? Not likely.

+1 That PP needs to go visit Ellis Island.

My parents were poor immigrants. Trump's own mother was a poor Scottish immigrant.

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I was in the Military back in the early 70s and traveled many times via Greyhound all along the South and up the East Coast. It was the most effective way for the Army to transfer me.
I have lived out west since 1980 A few years ago, I was going down the East Coast with my daughter on vacation, just killing time and exploring. We rode the train down from NYC and then hopped on Greyhound to take us into Virginia. It was a sad experience. EVERYONE on the bus was Latino and the driver was Black.
You can read about our population change, but unless you've actually experienced it over the last 40 years, it just doesn't sink in.
Congratulations Liberals

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thing is that Trump has a point when he says we are getting the worst of the worst and I say this as a hispanic. I asked a relative from Chile why people from our city never come to the US but only the poorest of the poor country folk who have no education and disregard for the law in their country and when they come to the US illegally and they just said that since they don't live in the capital or the 'rich areas' of their home countries then the process to obtain a visa is quicker without an interview even that is required from the educated wealtheir people who live closer to the capital.

Seriously, PP, you had to ask about this? This isn't rocket science. People who are in comfortable circumstances don't often uproot or separate from their families and move to foreign countries where they know no one, don't speak the language, and have to work cleaning other people's houses or doing migrant work.

This has been happening from the very beginning of our country. One of my great-great-etc grandfathers came to America as an indentured servant, more than 300 years ago. You think he would have come if he'd been landed Irish gentry? Not likely.

Are you stupid? I was talking about the type of immigrants who commit crimes and how easy it is for them to slip into the US not the women and men willing to risk rape or murder as they illegally cross the border. Yes, it's well known what kind of people come to the US. I always say that the whites who are here have roots in poverty and that is the reason they came here and the reason why they are so ambitious and cutthroat.