Why don't undocumented people just become ... documented? Why do people immigrate illegally? In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on America's broken immigration system, and ICE and Border Patrol's brutal policing of it.
NC's retiring Sen. Thom Tillis seems to be souring on the leadership of Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Some pastors and NC churches say they're stepping up to protect local immigrants from ICE and Border Patrol raids.
NC Christmas tree farms lost thousands of trees when Helene rolled through western NC in 2024. But wherever you look in 2025, those tree farms say they're bouncing back.
NC Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat, spoke with Cardinal & Pine last month as lawmakers had a chance to return to session and do something about Medicaid funding.
Dr. Beverly A. Gray and Dr. Jonas Swartz co-host the "Outlawed" podcast, a North Carolina-based show that unpacks abortion bans, misinformation, and the human stories behind them.
Cardinal & Pine's Michael McElroy says when people voted for Trump in 2024, they probably weren't envisioning the NC immigration raids we're seeing today.
Amid the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Charlotte, the Save America Movement worked with Siembra NC to train community members who volunteered to help patrol neighborhoods in order to proactively alert immigrants whenever they saw federal agents present.
A Durham woman talks about her experience helping kids get to school during the ICE and Border Patrol crackdowns in NC.
Several NC and national immigrant rights groups held a protest outside a Charlotte Home Depot this week amid the surge of Border Patrol raids in the city.
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