Thread: NC County may check for law-breaking illegal immigrants

County may check for law-breaking illegal immigrants
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=269119
By Erinn McGuire
Staff writer

Cumberland County deputies may soon start checking for illegal immigrants in the Cumberland County Jail.

Sheriff Moose Butler wants to join other North Carolina sheriffs in an effort to identify foreign-born nationals who break the law.

Butler has applied to participate in a federally funded program know as the section 278(g) initiative. The program provides training to state and local lawmen to identify, process and, when appropriate, detain people who have been arrested and who are in the U.S. illegally.

The training is provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

“Unless they admit openly, we don’t really have a way to know their status,â€

In a related story, I saw this morning where the Hispanic population is actually DOWN in Cumberland County, but of course UP in Wake (Raleigh), Durham County (Durham), and Johnston County (next to Wake). Maybe the illegals have been made to feel unwelcome in Cumberland County--who'd a thunk?

Cumberland County, on the other hand, saw a 23 percent drop in its Hispanic population since 2000, and Hispanics now account for just over 5 percent of its population.

http://wral.com/news/local/story/1678868/