A County Sheriff’s Election in North Carolina Has Become a Referendum on ICE’s Deportation Machine

Summary: The Trump era has been breathing new life into often dormant local politics —and the president’s crackdown on immigrants, in particular, has made resistance to federal immigration enforcement a central issue in some municipal elections. As the increasingly aggressive tactics of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have come under scrutiny, the question of whether local police should help ICE deport people has taken on new importance in local races.