Here, Richard Cabellos receives the 2008 Fairfax County Outstanding Performance Award from the Fairfax County executive for building partnerships in the Latino community and establishing the Park Authority as a credible partner in the countywide network of human services providers.

Photo: Courtesy of Richard Cabellos

Tagged: immigration, South Riding

Richard Cabellos (walking toward the camera, with the VCU sweatshirt on) helped organize a fall clean-up event in Herndon with the day laborer community. Here, he is shown with some of the workers, clearing the parkland behind Hutchinson Elementary School of trash and debris.

Photo: Courtesy of Richard Cabellos

Tagged: immigration, South Riding, Up Close

Loudoun County Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson talks with Sterling residents John Drake and Don Brock at an August 2007 panel discussion about illegal immigrationn in Loudoun County. Simpson spoke this week about the next phase in the county's plan to address illegal immigration.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: immigration, Loudoun Sheriff's Office

Tall grass and weeds overcome several unoccupied homes in a state of disrepair in Sterling Park.

Photo: Rich Lipski, Washington Post

Tagged: immigration, Sterling

The sign outside Lansdowne Resort on Wednesday.

Photo: Erica Garman, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: immigration, Lansdowne

Security was posted outside the entrance to Lansdowne Resort on Wednesday.

Photo: Erica Garman, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: immigration, Lansdowne

The back of Lansdowne Resort Wednesday morning.

Photo: Erica Garman, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: immigration, Lansdowne

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested 59 immigrant workers at Lansdowne Resort on Tuesday.

Photo: Courtesy ICE

Tagged: immigration, Lansdowne

Rosie Orellana-Serrano

Tagged: crime, immigration

Oscar Edgardo Moz-Herrera

Tagged: crime, immigration

Wilbur Ernesto Aleman-Orellana

Tagged: crime, immigration

Marcelino Benitez holds his passport at Dulles International Airport.

Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post

Tagged: Dominion , Dulles Airport, immigration

Marcelino Benitez became friends with two parent volunteers while he was a student at Dominion High School. They helped him through the process of applying for his visa. After spending almost two years in Mexico finalizing his paperwork, Benitez is greeted upon his arrival at Dulles International Airport as a legal resident.

Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post

Tagged: Dominion , Dulles Airport, immigration

Marcelino Benitez, center, with his friends from high school, Eric Montero-Arnez, left, and Jessy Butkovich, at Dulles International Airport.

Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post

Tagged: Dominion , Dulles Airport, immigration

Marcelino Benitez, second from right, is greeted upon his arrival at Dulles International Airport by, from left: Taryn Simms, Duke Butkovich, Jessy Butkovich and Eric Montero-Arnez.

Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post

Tagged: Dominion , Dulles Airport, immigration

From left: Jessy Butkovich, Taryn Simms, Eric Montero-Arnez and Duke Butkovich. They are awaiting the arrival of Marcelino Benitez, who is returning to Northern Virginia from Mexico. After graduating from Dominion High School, Benitez, 21, went back to Mexico to obtain a visa.

Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post

Tagged: Dominion , Dulles Airport, immigration

Marcelino Benitez is greeted upon his return from Mexico by Duke Butkovich at Dulles International Airport. Benitez, a graduate of Dominion High School, spent nearly two years in Mexico trying to obtain his visa.

Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post

Tagged: Dominion , Dulles Airport, immigration

Emotions ran high as hundreds of people, most against the illegal-immigrant proposal, gathered outside the government complex.

Photo: Carol Guzy, Washington Post

Tagged: immigration

Blanca Torres, left, holding her granddaughter Genesis Torres, and her sister, Ana Garcia, right, sign petitions against proposed service cuts to illegal immigrants in Prince William County, before a meeting of the Prince William board of supervisors in Woodbridge on Tuesday.

Photo: Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press

Tagged: immigration

Officer Steve Collins looks through the possessions of a suspected illegal immigrant from El Salvador. The man was arrested for being intoxicated in public. He had no identification, $12.78 in cash, pull tabs to return for a deposit, Virginia lottery tickets, cigarettes and a lighter. Officers kept the items while the man sobered up at the Adult Detention Center.

Photo: Linda Davidson, Washington Post

Tagged: immigration

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