Posted by LA Times from Raleigh NC on October 15, 2009, 9:40 pm, in reply to "Secession movement gathers steam"
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From the front page of Wednesday's Oct. 14, 2009 Los Angeles Times story by Anna Gorman:
"The Wake County Sheriff's Department is one of eight local law enforcement agencies in North Carolina and 66 across the nation authorized by the federal government to identify illegal immigrants and process them for possible deportation under a program known as 287(g). Virginia is the only other state with more participating agencies. There are four such agreements in California, including one with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department."
futher down:
"Responding to concerns, the Obama administration announced in July that participating agencies would be subject to federal supervision and required to focus their efforts primarily on serious and violent criminals."
futher down:
"One high-profile participant, Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, who is being investigated by the Department of Justice, said last week that federal authorities are stripping him of his authority to make immigration arrests on the streets."
futher down:
"As of Oct. 1, the sheriff's staff (Wake County, NC) had interviewed about 3,700 foreign-born inmates and processed about 2,650 for possible removal."
futher down:
Demographic shifts
"...Between 2005 and 2007, the state's (NC) Latino population was estimated at 596,000, up from 77,000 in 1990, according to the U.S. Census data."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immig-law14-2009oct14,0,5208536,full.story
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