u/border_dad
· 5h
489 detainers. Three vetoes. $3.14 billion. Keep those three stamps.
Democrat Roy Cooper's Sanctuary Agenda Protected Illegal Aliens Over North Carolina Families
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Four hundred eighty-nine ICE detainers ignored. Three vetoes. One Senate race still asking sheriffs to clap.
Summary
- Breitbart reports North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper, as governor, backed sanctuary policies that it says cost taxpayers $3.14 billion and left nearly 500,000 illegal aliens in the state by estimate.
- In 2018 and 2019, 489 illegal aliens with active ICE detainers were released from state prisons, including people charged with sex offenses, kidnapping, and homicides.
- Breitbart cites a Durham release who later allegedly strangled a girlfriend, a Mecklenburg release after first-degree rape and indecent-liberties charges, and a Buncombe release after statutory sex-offense charges involving an 11-year-old. Cooper vetoed cooperation bills in 2019, 2022, and 2024. The last version became law by bipartisan override.
- Breitbart says the 2019 veto followed lobbying by Siembra NC, which hosts ICE Watch workshops. Zero law-enforcement groups have endorsed Cooper. A Quantus Insights poll had Cooper 48 and Republican Michael Whatley 43.
Commentary
A mill dad still pays a North Carolina levy off a linoleum break table and knows an ICE detainer is supposed to mean a hold, not a county shrug that lets a rape file walk. He did not clock overtime so three vetoes could keep a locker empty of a transfer.
489 detainers. Three vetoes. One override. The vinyl chair in that Durham waiting room still holds the honest household that already bought the cuff.
Look every working father who still locks a porch after second shift in the eye and answer this: if 489 detainers already walked, who still owns the next county that will not pick up the phone?
Comments
If 489 ICE detainers already walked, who still owns the next county that will not pick up the phone?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a detainer still meant a hold. A county shrug is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
2019, 2022, 2024 vetoes. Override on the last. Print the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied sheriffs still treat an ICE hold as a breach, not a partisan point.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Durham. Mecklenburg. Buncombe. File the three counties.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next detainer empty of a walk.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
An 11-year-old file is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A 489-count release next to zero sheriff endorsements is a second border around every honest mill.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed 489, three vetoes, and the override. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the override. Keep the detainer. A sanctuary veto is not a souvenir.
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