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Garland (R-Roanoke) opposed even the mild Virginia-disclosure proposal, saying it duplicated the federal law and was unnecessary.
Del. Garland Recused assemblymen like Del. Paul Brickley (DPrince William^ who urgec adoption of the bill, o1 reflecting “American farmers xenophobia”—the fear of the strange or the foreign.
The Virginia bill requires not only the disclosure of land purchases by foreign nationals. It requires that land already owned by foreigners be registered* with the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. While some of the investors seek financial security, a haven for their money, others also seek personal security and a new and productive life here. They’re working their farms. Germans are raising horses on two farm-estates in Clarke County. Germans are milking cows and growing wine grapes in Orange. The new German arrivals near Remington in Fauquier County are raising and training a special breed of horse, the Trakehner.
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