Or does it? The civil rights group Fairness Alamance presents a draft resolution to county commissioners calling for stronger oversight of the federal 287(g) program run by Sheriff Terry Johnson.
I couldn’t help but notice that Commission Chairwoman Linda Massey seemed to take Fainress spokesman David Blair’s resolution with a grain of salt:
“But we’re not going to micromanage him, now,” said Commissioner Chairwoman Linda Massey, wagging a pen at Blair.
Blair said the group will draft the recommendations in the form of a resolution for the commissioners to ponder.
“We’ll leave that up to you,” Massey said.
After the meeting ended, Massey said Blair’s presentation was “basically the same thing they’ve (Fairness Alamance) always given to us” and added that she won’t know whether she will favor the resolution until she has seen it.
That’s probably because a good many constituents feel the way this one does:
“I really haven’t seen the groundswell of support for allowing more illegal aliens into Alamance County,” said retired banker Steve Carter. “When you look at the fact that we’ve had two people in our county killed by illegal aliens driving motor vehicles without licenses, it makes it kind of hard to want to try and justify any more of that kind of activity, much less the lesser violations.”
Commissioners certainly can’t turn a deaf ear to those concerns.
