El Pueblo’s Illiana Santillan on a troubling bill changing how NC sheriffs deal with immigrants

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Illiana Santillan (Photo courtesy El Pueblo)

For several years now, North Carolina Republican legislators have been attempting to enact a law that would impose a one-size-fits-all approach on county sheriffs when it comes to dealing with the immigrant communities they serve. The proposal would mandate that sheriffs act as, in effect, adjuncts of federal immigration enforcement – even when the sheriffs have made the determination that doing so will endanger public safety by causing community cooperation with their offices to plummet.

In the past, Gov. Roy Cooper has successfully vetoed the legislation, but in recent weeks, the proposal has reemerged. Recently, in order to get a better handle on where things stand and why proposals like this represent the wrong approach to our state and national immigration policy challenges, NC Newsline caught up with one of the state’s leading advocates for immigrant communities, the executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group El Pueblo, Iliana Santillan.

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