WUNC: “This year, a veto-proof Republican supermajority all but ensures that the latest immigration enforcement bill, House Bill 10, could become law.
Bills like these aren’t new — there was House Bill 370 in 2019, and most recently, Senate Bill 101 in 2021. Gov. Cooper vetoed both of them.
“We’ve worked on building up relationships between law enforcement and the community for a long time,” Antelmo Salazar, an activist based in the town of Henderson, said in Spanish. “But these racist bills are damaging what we’ve built.”
Republican legislators have argued for years that immigrants without legal status who are accused of any crime should be deported. They’ve proposed that local sheriffs should cooperate by handing over immigrants in their jails to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE.
That’s the essence of House Bill 10, and it faces the same criticisms as its earlier versions: residents say it would damage community trust in law enforcement, while others claim it violates the right to due process and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable seizures.”