Thread: N.C. - Alamance Commissioners hear about 287(g)

By Isaac Groves
Times-News

Posted at 9:41 PM
Updated at 10:29 PM

GRAHAM — The Alamance County Board of Commissioners didn’t have the controversial 287(g) program on its agenda Monday, Aug. 20, but it heard about it from activists.

“I am against 287(g) because I was wrongly detained because I am Latino,” Edith Rodriguez said through a translator. “I was detained in 2012 here in Alamance County by immigration; I had a permit to be in this country. My kids were crying waiting outside the detention center for me for four hours. I don’t want other families to go through the same thing.”

A crowd of 30 or more from Siembra N.C., an advocacy group by and for undocumented immigrants sponsored by the American Friends Services Committee, gathered outside before the meeting and helped fill the commissioners’ meeting room and overflow room.

Commissioner Bob Byrd repeated his opposition to the county returning to the 287(g) program, saying it could land the county in court again and create a fear of profiling in the Latino community.

“I wouldn’t want to be stopped because of the color of my skin,” Byrd said.

Board Chair Amy Galey pushed back, saying there was nothing in the program about checking people’s papers, and the fear in the community was the result of manipulation.

“Which I think comes from peeps politicizing the 287(g) program,” Galey said.

287(g) is a federal program that gets local sheriff’s offices to flag offenders in jail who are also in the country illegally for deportation, and trains deputies to enforce immigration law in the field. It led to an unsuccessful U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against the county Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Terry Johnson on charges of profiling Hispanics. Johnson has been invited to revive the program in Alamance County.

Commissioner Tim Sutton joined Galey in supporting Johnson, saying he needed access to federal databases in the 287(g) program to identify dangerous people who otherwise could hide among the Latino community. But both said it was something the sheriff had to decide since he was the one who got the worst of the Justice Department lawsuit.

“I believe we need to do something in this nation about those who don’t feel they need to follow the rules,” Sutton said.

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Originally Posted by Jean

“I am against 287(g) because I was wrongly detained because I am Latino,” Edith Rodriguez said through a translator. “I was detained in 2012 here in Alamance County by immigration; I had a permit to be in this country.

permit to be in this country since at least 2012

6 years later still needs a translator

and

gets to complain at a County meeting

“I am against 287(g) because I was wrongly detained because I am Latino,” Edith Rodriguez said through a translator. “I was detained in 2012 here in Alamance County by immigration; I had a permit to be in this country. My kids were crying waiting outside the detention center for me for four hours. I don’t want other families to go through the same thing.”

What kind of permit? Probably one of those things the Obama administration was handing out like candy.

Foreign citizens, even those here legally, should have no say. Many want to dictate to us, to complain about measures to protect us against illegal immigration and crime. The 287g is a valuable tool. Like many things, the innocent may be caught up at times. It is not a reason to reject the partnership.

We have failed in allowing so many to come here who have no desire to assimilate or accept our laws. Meddling, protesting, screaming, demanding are their tactics. Lots of dollars help them in their dramas.

Alamance County has been a real hot spot on this issue in NC.

Sheriff Terry Johnson has been a real American hero standing up for the 287(G) program which saves American property and lives from illegal aliens, but the Obama administration persecuted and prosecuted Sheriff Johnson to protect their illegal alien Democrat voters.

Glad to see Tim Sutton still fighting for Americans on the Alamance County Commission too.

A 287G program could have saved Mollie Tibbetts or another American like her.

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