[Dane]

i do not normally follow the immigration threads, but i am extremely familiar with this neighborhood, as my former parish is located directly across the street from the Chinese restaurant mentioned here

Is it as bad as mentioned in the article? Every neighborhhod is going to have it's share of bad apples, but what miffs me is the smearing with a broad brush of all immigrants that some do on FR.

I have worked alongside a lot of immigrants and almost all of them were hard working church going family oriented people.

[xsmommy]

well it depends on what you consider bad. for someone that lives in a homogenous area this would seem like living in a foreign country. But this is a major metropolitan area, and it is extremely common to have tons of people from all over. We lived not that far from this area, yes there are asian gangs, supposedly and i had heard of crime related to that sort of activity. Never encountered any sort of problems personally. But heck, i was a Latin American studies major undergrad and i had a salvadoran babysitter watching my kids and she lived in that area. So i am looking at it a bit differently than the xenophobes.

[jsraggmann]

Yup, these are just the kind of folks that we sholld give "amnesty" to. God forbid that we should open our borders to White, Englih speaking victims of ethnic cleansing in Rhodesia and South Africa.

[fearnot]

You know, you are right about most immigrants being family-oriented, church going people. In Fairfax County, the majority of parents who care enough to publicly inquire about what is being taught in the sex-ed classes are immigrants. The natives are already so sex-saturated by the culture that they don't care what is taught to their kids in these classes. It seems to me that the IMMIGRANTS are here demonstrating the values that used to be widespread in our society.