There may be no politics more local than a campaign for sheriff, but the charged national issue of immigration has become suddenly salient. The defeat of two prominent sheriffs in North Carolina may set a template for progressive challenges nationwide.
President Trump's immigration policies are having an effect in unexpected places -- namely, local elections for sheriff.
The question of local cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement was central to the outcome of three races for sheriff in North Carolina on Tuesday. Many voters objected to the program known as 287(g), under which local law enforcement agencies contract with the feds on immigration enforcement.
"In the sheriff's race, that was the main issue that got voters out to the polls," says Oliver Merino, an organizer with Comunidad Colectiva, an immigrant rights group in Charlotte. "The fact that we had two candidates committed to ending the program, while the current sheriff didn't want to hear anything about ending the program, that gave a clear choice."
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3 comments:
They take an oath to uphold out laws, by picking and choosing which laws to enforce is a breach of that oath which when boiled down to it's base level makes them to be a liar!
The only group that could possibly be against a sheriff that enforces immigration laws is that of illegal immigrants, and they're not supposed to be voting anyway.
Their legal immigrant friends who worked hard and went through the legal process should be supporting our laws and not illegal immigration.
Communidad Collective sounds like they support giving illegals voting rights.
MS13 will be thriving in a town near you.
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