Study: NC a national leader in refusing to cooperate with ICE

While Raleigh Republicans are swooning over our radical left-wing governor-by-default, a bigger problem is brewing at the state level.  A new study from The Center for Immigration Studies indicates that our home sweet home is the eighth most likely state to refuse cooperation with federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel.

That ranking is for the period ranging from federal FY 2023 through February 6, 2025.  Nationally, for that period, there were 22,283 instances where local law enforcement refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.   North Carolina accounted for 508 of those instances.   Almost half of those North Carolina instances (219) were thanks to the Wake County Sheriff’s Department.

(South Carolina is credited by the study with 111 non-cooperation instances for that same period.) 

Here is a list of the sanctuary localities in The Tar Heel State:


HERE is a table indicating where we’ve been nationally and where we’re headed.