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Is this one for Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, or Lou Dobbs?

By Steve

The Bristol paper reports here that an illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced by Judge Lowe of the Washington County Circuit Court to 26 life terms in prison, one for each month that he molested a young girl.

The article does not say which Southwest Virginia employer or employers had been paying him, right here in Washington County.

Also today came published reports such as this one, indicating "Immigrants in California, including those without documents, are 'far less likely' than the native-born to end up incarcerated for crimes, according to a study released Monday by the Public Policy Institute of California."

That report is available here.

Full post as published by Southwest Virginia Law Blog on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).