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Checkpoint monitoring and racial profiling

More on the racial profiling issue via this post from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice on BlueNC. Over the past week the Southern Coalition [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr • Jul 7, 2009 • Posted in: Constitution, Courts, Current Events, Immigration • Tags: , , , • Comments closed

Prevent Racial Profiling

Senate Bill 464 — prevent racial profiling — is going to get a review by the House Juvenile Justice Judiciary Committee this week. (Remember the [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr • Jul 6, 2009 • Posted in: Administration, Current Events, Immigration, Policy • Comments closed

Bill of the Day: Battle over immigration and higher education

Conflicting approaches to immigration and higher education on the agenda for the legislature. H362 instructs the community college and UNC systems not to implement any [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr • Mar 3, 2009 • Posted in: Immigration, Legislation • Comments closed

Higher Ground

Higher ground This county is no more awash in illegals than it was at another time “awash” in Italians, Irish and Germans. If it is [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr • Dec 29, 2007 • Posted in: Columns, Immigration, Policy • Comments closed

EJS: Dec. 6

Backblogin again. From the column on December 6 The Guv gets it Affix blame, if you would, firmly with the campaign class — the pollsters, [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr • Dec 16, 2007 • Posted in: Columns, Elections, Immigration • Comments closed

Food stamps and SSN

Keeping an eye on how this gets spun: State Auditor Les Merritt’s folks did an analysis on those using invalid Social Security numbers to get [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr • Dec 12, 2007 • Posted in: Current Events, Immigration • Comments closed