Dem. N.C. Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Local, State Cops to Cooperate with ICE
North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required local and state police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Under the legislation, which passed the state House along party lines on Tuesday, local and state police would be required to detain illegal immigrants in their custody until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could retrieve them. “This legislation is simply about scoring partisan political points and using fear to divide North Carolina,” Cooper said in a ...
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