Source: Teo Armus, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/11/19


There’s a “new normal” for immigrants in North Carolina inching closer to reality — but it’s not necessarily the one federal immigration officials had warned about earlier this year. At a Charlotte press conference in February, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency would be making more arrests in streets and neighborhoods. Because ICE had been cut off from the state’s largest jails, officials said, agents had “no choice” but to detain more people out in the open.  

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