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North Carolina County Wants to Stem Migrant Influx
Immigration; Posted on: 2008-05-25
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County can't afford to serve extra families.
Threat and Response
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Kristin Collins
Beaufort County, known for sweeping views of the Pamlico and Pungo rivers,
is
working toward a new distinction.
Leaders say they want to make their rural Eastern North Carolina county
the
toughest place in the country for illegal immigrants.
The county commissioners are meeting with a lawyer to help identify public
services that can be denied to illegal immigrants. And in cases where it
is
not legal to exclude people, they say they may eliminate programs --
including
federally funded prenatal care for poor women -- in an attempt to drive
illegal immigrants from the county.
"They're coming to the United States illegally and bringing their pregnant
wife and children," said Hood Richardson, the Beaufort commissioner who is
leading the charge. "Those families are falling on our social welfare
systems.
We can't afford that."
Beaufort County, about 100 miles east of Raleigh, has already become a
leader
in the state in discouraging undo***ented Hispanic immigrants. The
seven-member Board of Commissioners has declared English its official
language, removed Spanish signs and bilingual automated phone answering
systems and has begun tracking the number of Spanish-speaking people who
use
social services.
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