@siembranc Dozens of people were detained by Border Patrol agents from Pineville to northern Charlotte in at least 36 different confirmed incidents, which we're sure is an undercount, making it the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day in state history. Nikki Marín Baena, co-director of Siembra NC said, "This is a shameful day for the North Carolina Republican Party, who hailed the arrival of so-called law enforcement officers carrying out terrorist operations, and echoed Greg Bo

The Republican-led NC General Assembly this month passed a new Congressional election map that will make it virtually impossible for incumbent US Rep. Democrat Don Davis to win re-election. Lawmakers passed the map on party lines, despite receiving more than 12,000 public comments opposing the legislation. Before the NC House vote, Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat, accused Republicans of choosing partisan gamesmanship over solving the state’s long list of problems | Cardinal & Pine