Thread: N.C. Police Arrest 6 Protesters in Front of Executive Mansion

Police Arrest 6 Protesters in Front of Executive Mansion

By TWC News Web Staff
Updated Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 08:42 PM EDT




RALEIGH—Raleigh police cut through PVC pipe to break up a human chain and arrest six ralliers during an intense protest against North Carolina's new immigration law on Thursday evening.

Activists gathered at the governor's mansion Thursday night.

Gov. Pat McCrory signed House Bill 318 into law on Wednesday, which expands the uses of E-Verify in the state and says certain IDs won't be considered legal identification.

The new law also prohibits cities and counties from creating sanctuary cities, which are apparent safe havens for undocumented immigrants.

Ralliers believe the new law targets minorities and the poor; however, supporters say it will promote public safety and help keep track of who is in the country.

“As someone whose father came to this country legally, I can certainly say that we need to do everything possible to get rid of the incentives that promote illegal immigration and do everything we can to promote legal immigration. My father came to this country because we are a nation of laws, and we need to uphold the rule of law in this country," said Ricky Diaz, N.C. GOP.

“We ultimately don’t think this bill is a good bill, and it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. We wouldn’t endorse any of these provisions because they are not doing anything to make North Carolina a better or more welcoming place for anyone," said protester Emilio Vicente.

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Yay! Arrest them all. Arrest and deport!

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New law doesn't stop Wake deputies from accepting woman's consular card






By Leyla Santiago

RALEIGH, N.C. — One of the six people arrested Thursday outside the governor's mansion during a protest of a new state law affecting undocumented immigrants gave Wake County authorities her Mexican consular card despite a provision in the law that says such forms of identification are no longer valid in North Carolina.

House Bill 318, dubbed the Protect North Carolina Workers Act, also prohibits any North Carolina county or municipality from restricting local law enforcement's ability to cooperate with federal immigration officials, requires state and local government agencies to use the E-Verify system to check the legal status of job applicants and contractors and limits food assistance for able-bodied, childless adults who are unemployed.

Upset that Gov. Pat McCrory ignored their pleas to veto the bill in recent weeks and signed it into law on Wednesday, more than 100 people protested outside the Executive Mansion, and six people chained themselves together in the middle of Blount Street, forcing police to divert traffic for more than two hours.

Martha Iliana Santillian-Carril, 32, Angeline Marie Echeverria, 47, Ivanna Christina Gonzalez, 24, Nayely Irais Perez-Huerta, 28, David Salazar-Montalvo, 47, and Maria Carmen Rodriguez, 30, were arrested and charged with impeding traffic and resisting, delaying or obstructing officers.

Rodriguez, a mother of three who has lived and worked in Raleigh for the past decade, is in the U.S. illegally and readily told deputies of her immigration status when she was booked into the jail. She also provided her consular card when asked for identification.

The new law bars government agencies from using consular or embassy documents to verify someone's identity or residence, but a change to its provisions that was included in a "technical corrections" bill that passed at the close of the legislative session gave law enforcement discretion in whether to accept such documents for identification.

"Yes, she did have an ID from the consulate. Yes, it was accepted. We'll accept any ID," Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said. "We're going to accept it because that's what you tell us your name is, but we're going to continue to investigate and go through the process."

Harrison says Rodriguez was questioned through the 287(g) program, which allows local law enforcement officers trained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain information about someone's immigration status, and her name was run through the ICE database.

Rodriguez and the other protesters were then released. Harrison said his deputies working in the 287(g) program focus on violent offenders, and Rodriguez wasn't flagged when her name was put in the database.

Harrison supports the new law, saying that, too many times, ID cards from a consulate aren't credible, which makes it difficult for his deputies to identify people.

"I wish there was a process where the undocumented could get some type of paper if they're going to work here, live here, be law-abiding citizens, to speed the process up. It would help us tremendously," he said.

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