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Over at Right Win…

The family that planted corn in the front yard of their $500,000 home is gone from Carrie Oliver’s street. So are the neighbors who drilled holes into the trees to string up a hammock.

Oliver’s list goes on: The loud music. The beer bottles. The littered diapers. All gone. When she and her husband, Ron, went for walks in their Manassas area neighborhood, she would take a trash bag and he would carry a handgun. No more. “So much has changed,” she said in a gush of relief, standing with her husband on a warm summer evening recently outside a Costco store.

Ummm..OK, not the best testimonial if you’re looking to demonize the policy. Maybe it’s only a handful of illegals being found…a lot of expense for a very minor problem in one county.

County jail officials have turned over 757 illegal immigrant inmates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the past year through an agreement that county supervisors approved as part of the crackdown.

757? In one year? in one county alone? Damn…there goes that argument.

Maybe we can dig up some demographic or crime statistics to show this is an eeeevil policy!

The numbers suggest that tensions over crowding have subsided: Complaints about residential overcrowding dropped to 30 last month from 79 in July 2007….Police statistics show that the county’s crime rate has been declining since 2004, even as the population increased.

Sarcasm aside, it’s good to see one county fighting back.