DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Lawmakers in North Carolina overwhelmingly voted for legislation to require law enforcement across the state to cooperate with federal immigration authorities who are trying to catch illegal aliens.
The GOP-dominated state Legislature on Wednesday completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of HB 10, a bill that effectively will ban “sanctuary city” policies across North Carolina. Cooper, a Democrat, has been governor since 2017.
North Carolina’s new law requires sheriffs to honor detainers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on noncitizens arrested in connection with serious crimes and suspected of living in the country unlawfully. (ICE is part of the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS.)
“The bill itself is purely common sense,” state Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, a Republican, said…
