VIDEO — ‘It’s About Protecting America’: Bill Forcing NC Sheriffs to Cooperate with ICE May Soon Become Law
by AMY FURR2 May 2024
A bill that would force sheriffs in North Carolina to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities may soon become law after much debate among state lawmakers.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary approved House Bill 10 on Tuesday after it passed the House chamber in 2023, the Carolina Journal reported.
The bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Destin Hall (R-Caldwell), said a detainer is a common way for ICE to remove noncitizens whom law enforcement had arrested for criminal activity.
Hall stated during a meeting on Tuesday:
As everyone knows, there’s a small number of sheriffs, probably somewhere around 10 or so now, who don’t honor ICE detainers. And in fact, in many cases, according to folks at ICE and others, some sheriffs simply don’t even communicate with ICE at all. It is a common-sense bill. I’ve been dealing with this issue now for five or six years, and it still, to me, is amazing that we even have to have a bill like this. It seems to me to be common sense that law enforcement should cooperate with one another and their first goal should be public safety.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigratio...on-become-law/
