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SB 179 — Your papers, please

Here is the text of the bill introduced on Thursday that requires aliens to carry their registration papers with them at all times. This makes [...]
March 6, 2011 | Posted in: General Assembly, Immigration | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Kay, ya blew it

Really, you did. You disappointed a lot of people who supported you in a way that they’re not likely to ever forgive. This was a [...]
December 18, 2010 | Posted in: Immigration, US Senate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

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 [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in: Constitution, Courts, Current Events, Immigration | Tags: , , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

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 [...]
July 6, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Current Events, Immigration, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

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 [...]
March 3, 2009 | Posted in: Immigration, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

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 [...]
December 29, 2007 | Posted in: Columns, Immigration, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

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, [...]
December 16, 2007 | Posted in: Columns, Elections, Immigration | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

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 [...]
December 12, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Immigration | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink