Start your week in North Carolina politics with the latest Under the Dome podcast for the week of April 8, 2024. dawn vaughn He is a podcast host and Capitol Hill bureau chief for The News & Observer. In this episode, we talk about immigration, a major issue at the state and national level.
Two of the reporters on our political team are Avi Bajpai and Daniel Battaglia, I wrote an article about the issue coming out this week. This is published by McClatchy Newspapers as part of its national coverage of immigration.
Mr. Vajpayee spoke about detention requests that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, is making to prisons and about legislation planned for this year's General Assembly session that would require sheriffs to cooperate with those requests. ing.
Mr. Vajpayee interviewed state legislators. Destin Hall, Caldwell County Republican. As chairman of the House Rules Committee, Hall controls what supermajorities bring to the floor. Along with the speakers. In this episode, you can hear a clip of that interview and why Hall says we need a new ICE bill on sheriff cooperation.
You'll also receive a message from the Mecklenburg County Sheriff. Garry McFadden — is one of the sheriffs targeted by the Republican-led bill.
“Nobody has a solution. The system is broken,” McFadden said of immigration.
After a break, Battaglia will talk about his coverage of Greensboro's new facility for immigrant children and all the unanswered questions about it. Plus, how the immigration issue is playing out in Washington.
Read all future immigration coverage at newsobserver.com.
This week's headliners
From today's solar eclipse viewing to capital improvement projects to a glorious North Carolina spring, stay tuned until the end for our picks for this week's headliners.
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