Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/11/19


The national furor over immigration has hit North Carolina hard. Recent clashes between several state sheriffs’ departments and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are as severe as anywhere in the country. Yet, as a new study published by Western Carolina University argues, the public controversy over immigration all too often misses the huge opportunity that immigrants offer.
ICE requires local law-enforcement agencies to report the immigration status of inmates, but sheriffs’ offices in Mecklenburg, Wake and Buncombe counties have announced they will cease cooperating.

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