blueridgenow.com
HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina -- As immigrants continue to pour into Henderson County unchecked, Sheriff Rick Davis would like to add another weapon to his arsenal to catch those here illegally if they are charged with committing a crime.
Davis was in Washington this week meeting with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, Congressman Heath Shuler and other lawmakers to get support for the county to be designated in the federal 287(g) program, which allows local law enforcement agencies to be trained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on identifying and handling illegal immigrants who break the law.
"It's a high priority to all of us in Henderson County and I wanted to make sure that project was moving forward," Davis said Thursday in a telephone interview from Washington.
Posted by tyne at July 15, 2007