
{"id":18785,"date":"2011-06-09T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18785"},"modified":"2011-06-09T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:35:02","slug":"chatham-rescinds-ice-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/09\/chatham-rescinds-ice-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatham rescinds ICE vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Taylor Sisk<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted on Monday to rescind a resolution adopted in January 2009 by the previous board that opposed participation in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 287(g) program. The program provides money to local law-enforcement agencies to help identify illegal immigrants and process them for deportation.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 4-1, with Commissioner Sally Kost in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The previous resolution stated that the\u00c2\u00a0board of commissioners \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stands in strong opposition to any local governmental agency contracting with ICE for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution passed Monday night states that the 2009 resolution \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inadvertently caused confusion within our community concerning the status of Chatham County as a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsanctuary county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that the county \u00e2\u20ac\u0153supports the cooperation of local law enforcement with all Federal and State agencies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Board Chair Brian Bock said the previous resolution expressed an opinion on local law enforcement that the current board majority does not share. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The majority feels that it is important for the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office to be able to perform its mission of enforcing laws, including those related to illegal immigration, without pressure to do otherwise from the board of commissioners,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bock said.<\/p>\n<p>Ilana Dubester, a local Latino community advocate, said on Wednesday that the new resolution was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153double-edged sword. It rescinds a very benign resolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and, she said, will discourage the reporting of crimes for fear of deportation. <\/p>\n<p>Dubester said that some of the wording of the resolution was similar to language found on the websites of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153well-known hate groups at the state and national level,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d citing the use of the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sanctuary county.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Public policy based on hate-group philosophy is not good policy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chatham County BOC votes to rescind a resolution adopted by the previous board that opposed participation in the ICE program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions\/18867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}