NCGA GOPers trying to water down sheriff-ICE cooperation bill?
Here we are with another example of talking tough, but then delivering something weak and spineless to appease campaign donors.
Remember when sheriffs elected in liberal enclaves Wake and Mecklenburg counties refused to cooperate with federal Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) agents? The folks from ICE asked for a little professional courtesy. if the locals picked up someone who happened to also be a target of ICE, the locals would let ICE know they have that suspect in custody and would hold the suspect until ICE arrived. That is SOP in about 98 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The snowflakes in Wake and Mecklenburg just had to be different.
Imagine if each city and county could pick and choose WHO they would cooperate with and WHAT laws they would enforce. Crossing a county line could make you scot-free of criminal charges.
Democrats are being painted as the soft-on-illegals bunch. But check out who in our state legislature is going all limp-and-spineless on immigration enforcement:
House Speaker Tim Moore says members of his caucus want to make changes to a Senate bill that would require sheriffs to work with federal immigration officials.
In a 108-3 vote Wednesday, House members voted against adopting the bill that state senators passed along party lines earlier this month
Moore told reporters Wednesday that state Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, is leading the house’s efforts to refine the bill with Senate leaders. Hall wants to make technical changes, Moore said without elaborating on the proposed adjustments. “I don’t think they’re hugely substantive,” Moore said. “I’m told there’s not any major sticking points.”
Moore said the House could vote to advance the bill next week, so long as Hall and Republican state senators can reach an agreement.
Republican lawmakers have been trying to enact similar legislation for years to no avail. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has vetoed previous bills that would’ve required sheriffs to work with immigration officials.
Democratic sheriffs in North Carolina’s biggest urban counties have said it does more harm than good to public safety if they work with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Hispanic residents are much less likely to report crimes, serve as witnesses or otherwise help local law enforcement if they know their local officials partner with ICE, multiple sheriffs, community activists and others have told state lawmakers.
This year’s bill would only require sheriffs to look up the immigration status of people charged with felonies or serious misdemeanors such as domestic violence. Republican state Sen. Danny Britt, R-Robeson, says the new language is intended to protect undocumented immigrants who are pulled over while driving to work, for instance, and who could then be booked for driving without a license or some other traffic infraction. […]
Protecting “undocumented immigrants,” eh? If they’re going to play around like this, why even bother having immigration or citizenship laws? It sounds like there are some electeds up there who are pandering to donors in the construction and agricultural sectors. (Don’t forget that Republicans like Moore, Hall and Britt are all practicing attorneys. Surely, quite a few of their colleagues in that sector are cheering this kind of water-down.)
The crime is being in this country in the first place. Giving a wink-and-a-nod to this also involves looking the other way on issues of tax evasion and security among others. Cops run your record all the time in traffic stops. It’s my understanding that traffic stops have led to some bad dudes being apprehended. Sometimes murderers on the lam get caught speeding.
So, if a cop running a record check sees ICE is looking for YOU, would the cop have the option of taking steps to keep ICE in the dark about the encounter? This could cut both ways. Suppose one sheriff’s department is seeking someone the feds have in custody.
One of the biggest impediments to catching the 9-11 suspects prior to 9-11 was the fact so many law enforcement agencies weren’t talking to each other. Supposedly, that got rectified in the wake of that awful day.
I don’t like the way this is headed at all.
Destin Hall is one of the worst political prostitutes for the special interests in the legislature, right up there with “Phony Phil” Berger. He ought to install a red light over his office door. One wonders which of his good buddy special interest lobbyists he is servicing on this one.
And Danny Britt? Anyone who would use the mangled far left term “undocumented immigrant” instead of the correct legal term “illegal alien” (as they are specifically termed in our federal immigration law), is highly suspect of being an amnesty whore. If someone is stupid enough to believe that an illegal alien is an “undocumented immigrant” they are probably also stupid enough to think a street corner drug dealer is an “unlicensed pharmacist”. Under the definitions in federal immigration law, only those here LEGALLY can be termed “immigrants”. Anyone who comes in illegally is not ANY type of “immigrant” and it is insulting to real immigrants to say they are.
President Trump has called for mass deportation of ALL illegal aliens, and several polls have now shown that a majority of American voters, and an overwhelming majority of Republican voters support that
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/amnesty_for_illegal_immigrants_or_mass_deportations
Our party needs to rid itself of the “Biden Republicans” who pander to illegal aliens. Hall and Britt are clearly two who need to go. So is Thom Tillis.
dam,n skippy on all points
Crime and illegal aliens are closely linked. In the sanctuary city of Chicago in the first three months of 2023, over 1,000 Venezuelan illegal aliens were arrested for various crimes. That is one nationality of illegal alien in one city in three months. And it is not just the US. Last year in Paris, 77% of rapes were committed by illegal aliens. In Germany, last year, illegal aliens who make up 14% of the population, committed 60% of the violent crimes (and, by the way, also consumed 62% of the country’s welfare budget). Here is a good compilation of recent articles on crimes committed by illegal aliens: https://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/78910/illegal-alien-migrants-behaving-badly-migrants-and-crime-newly-updated.html
If we are going to crack down on crime, we need to identify and remove the illegal alien criminals from our midst. Elected officials who refuse to do that are betraying their constituents. Destin Hall, I am looking at YOU.
The Sheriff of Forsyth County(Bobby Kimbrough)and W-S/Forsyth County DA(Jim O’Neill) have made a deal not to cooperate with ICE in order to develop a relationship with the Hispanic community. The illegal alien is already breaking the law by being in the country. Breaking the Law seems not to matter to Kimbrough(Democrat) or O’Neill(GOPer)
I wish that bit about O’Neill had gotten out before the runoff for Lieutenant Governor, but he got steamrolled anyway. He is the sort of Biden Republican who panders to illegal aliens that we do not need in our party.
Can someone name the true (if any) conservatives in the state of NC or on capiol hill??
For those that fly, saw this story yesterday. Family on United flight. Had paid for their pick of seats. They were re-located. A family they saw earlier entering the flight via the NO ID line (yeah, no TSA, no taking off most of your clothes for a search, shoes, etc) WERE GIVEN their seats. Family carrying Five Below bags with them. Flyer saw paperwork in the bags and zoomed in with phone camera to see tickets were in the name of Catholic Charities. Everyone in USA has to have an ID except dem/minority voters or illegals.
I’ve HAD it with our govt, our system, our charities, our churches DESTROYING our country with illegals.
We good citizens that work, earn, pay taxes and try to keep our properties up and thrive in this country with the American dream need a system to begin fighting back and outing these ‘systems’. The govt and our representatives WILL NOT. Our neighborhoods will be destroyed b/c the govt is placing these relocated immigrants in them and footing the bill.
For the regular American citizen, we are back to the point of taxation without representation.