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A New 287-G Program Spreads In North Carolina

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Amanda Magnus
Published August 11, 2020 at 1:06 PM EDT
A new program creates agreements between North Carolina sheriffs and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A new program creates agreements between North Carolina sheriffs and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Host Frank Stasio talks about cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officers with Rockingham County Sheriff Samuel Page, Stefania Arteaga of the ACLU of North Carolina, Appalachian State University professor Felicia Arriaga and ICE southeast region public affairs director Bryan Cox.

Sheriffs in North Carolina are signing new agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Under the new Warrant Service Officer program, local law enforcement officials can serve federal administrative warrants and transfer detainees into ICE custody. 

The program is part of 287(g), the controversial section of the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act that allows local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE. Ten North Carolina counties have joined the Warrant Service Officer program since the beginning of 2020. Host Frank Stasio talks to Rockingham County Sheriff Samuel Page, the first sheriff in the state to join the program, about why he decided to sign on and what the collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE looks like in his jurisdiction.

 

Then, Stefania Arteaga, Felicia Arriaga and Bryan Cox further explore how the Warrant Service Officer program continues to shape the relationship between local residents and law enforcement around the state. Arteaga is the acting regional immigrants' rights strategist for the ACLU of North Carolina, as well as the co-founder of Comunidad Colectiva and of the Carolina Migrant Network. Arriaga is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Appalachian State University who studies immigration. And Cox is the public affairs director of the Southeastern Region of ICE.

 

 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Amanda Magnus
Amanda Magnus grew up in Maryland and went to high school in Baltimore. She became interested in radio after an elective course in the NYU journalism department. She got her start at Sirius XM Satellite Radio, but she knew public radio was for her when she interned at WNYC. She later moved to Madison, where she worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for six years. In her time there, she helped create an afternoon drive news magazine show, called Central Time. She also produced several series, including one on Native American life in Wisconsin. She spends her free time running, hiking, and roller skating. She also loves scary movies.
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