Immigration
Republicans want local law enforcement to get involved in immigration, but advocates worried it would feed racial profiling.
The nonprofit online university WGU North Carolina granted two “surprise” $10,000 scholarships last week to a healthcare worker from Durham and a teaching assistant from Siler City.
Politics and pandemics, it was a difficult and confounding year. Here’s a look inside my top stories of 2020 in NC.
Elizabeth was detained when her baby was just 4 months old. She is part of a class-action petition and complaint that includes 14 women who claim they suffered medical abuse while in immigration custody.
The Trump administration separated thousands of children from their families at the border between 2017 and 2018, and 545 children remain without their families.
The missing parents are from Trump’s 2017 pilot program to separate families at the border.
Two unnamed ICE officials told the Washington Post that the increase in raids were more about politics than enforcement, as President Donald Trump has repeatedly condemned so-called sanctuary cities.
