Katy McCoy, Staff Writer


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Updated: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A growing immigrant population is disenfranchised by North Carolina laws, according to speakers at a local meeting Tuesday night.

About eleven people attended the Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee meeting, which featured N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange, and immigrant rights expert Marty Rosenbluth of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

The speakers discussed the North Carolina legislative climate for the provision of immigrant rights.

“The legislature started all of this some years ago.â€