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N.C. justices back sheriffs involved in immigration program

by Associated Press
| June 8, 2020 2:03 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled state judges don’t have authority to release immigrants held by a county sheriff working on behalf of the U.S. government with documents directing them to be detained.

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