Liz Schlemmer reports on concerns by Latino immigrants in Alamance County that County Commissioners will reinstate the 287(g) program operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
It’s a Sunday afternoon at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Burlington, and schoolchildren and their families gather in a church meeting room to craft hand-made greeting cards. Little girls in their Sunday dresses, dark hair pulled back in ribbons, write messages in crayon on red paper. Organizer Laura Garduño Garcia looks over a stack of finished cards written to the Alamance County commissioners.