When Roy Cooper Turned NC Into a Sanctuary State, You Bet Dregs Like This Roamed Free
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
Roy Cooper had eight years as governor to decide whether North Carolina would cooperate with federal immigration enforcement or look the other way. He chose the latter, dressed it up as compassion, and now he's running for Senate hoping nobody asks about the receipts. They should ask.
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North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper is going to have to deal with the deluge of criminal scum he allowed to roam the streets of his state. He can deny it all he wants, but his policies made the state less safe.
That we’re still talking about sanctuary city/state policies as some sort of public safety enhancement measure remains unfathomable. I know it’s been a while, but folks used to argue that these policies helped police because illegal aliens could now report crimes without fear of deportation, as if these people would ever call the police for anything.
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Roy Cooper had eight years as governor to decide whether North Carolina would cooperate with federal immigration enforcement or look the other way. He chose the latter, dressed it up as compassion, and now he's running for Senate hoping nobody asks about the receipts. They should ask. Sanctuary policies were never a neutral bureaucratic choice. They were a decision that certain criminal cases weren't worth the political discomfort of working with ICE.
The old pitch for these policies always sounded good in a press release: illegal immigrants will trust police more if they're not afraid of deportation, so they'll report crimes and everyone's safer. Nice theory. In practice, it asks us to believe that people living in the shadows specifically to avoid government attention are going to walk into a police station and file a report. That was always a stretch, and eight years later the argument hasn't gotten any less flimsy.
What actually happens under sanctuary policies is that local jails release people back onto the street instead of handing them to federal agents, and some of those people go on to hurt someone else. That's not a hypothetical, it's the whole complaint against Cooper right now. He can talk about compassion and community trust all he wants. Voters in North Carolina get to ask a simpler question: safer for whom?
Cooper wants a promotion to the U.S. Senate on the strength of his record as governor. Fine, then run on the record, all of it, including the part where his state became easier for dangerous people to hide in. Denying that connection doesn't make it disappear. It just means he'd rather not talk about it.
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