Senator Dole Meets Local Sheriffs

When you see Senator Elizabeth Dole's first televison campaign ad of the season, you will see another familiar face--Sheriff Tracy Carter.

When Sheriff Tracy Carter was in Burlington meeting with Senator Elizabeth Dole and sheriffs from Ala­mance, Guilford, Forsyth, Randolph and Rocking­ham counties to discuss a statewide immigration enforcement plan, the cameras where rolling for her first television commercial of the fall campaign. Sheriff Carter has attended several meetings with Dole. The meetings have discussed section 287(g) of the national Immigration and National­ity Act, and it allows states to enter into agreements with local law enforce­ment agencies to perform immigration law enforcement functions, such as starting the deporta­tion process. According to an article in the Saturday Sanford Herald, Lee County began performing its own resident status checks on criminals in its jail in January. In its first five months, the department has identified about 30 illegal immigrants who were arrested. Some have been sent to other departments for deporta­tion, while many remain in Lee County Jail.