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An organization that fights illegal immigration in North Carolina announced that on June 20 it will initiate a campaign so that laws be approved against the undocumented.

"We will not rest until legislation passes that causes the deportion of criminals and send a clear message, that we do not want illgals in North Carolina", affirmed to Efe William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC).

According to Gheen, whose group has more than 25,000 followers at a national level and eight percent is Hispanic, around 500 people will be protesting in the building of the Legislative Assembly in Raleigh, capital of the state.

Massive campaign

Gheen emphasized that his group will send letters, e-mails and faxes to the offices of the legislators asking for funds for police officers officials training so that they can exercise immigration functions.

The also want to require businesses that utilize the program E-Verify to review the immigration status of workers and cut of programs that benefit the immigrants without documents.

Gheen, whose group contributed to the effort that in 2006 no law proposal that would have permitted undocumented students to attend universities, reiterated that it is "urgent to pass an immigration law in this state".

Nothing is going to happen

"In South Carolina already there are restrictive measures and we expect a massive exodus of illegals to this state. Therefore we cannot lwaste time", added.

For Irene Godinez, director of the rights defense program of El Pueblo, the largest Hispanic organization of the state, what ALIPAC is doing is "to cause noise".

"This year they are not going to pass anything referring to the immigration issue neither for or against. What ALIPAC is doing, which has been linked with groups of racial hatred, is a campaign of fear against immigrants", reiterated Godinez.