When you see Senator Elizabeth Dole's first campaign ad of the season, you will see another familiar face--Sheriff Tracy Carter. (Click here to see ad) The ad, set to begin airing Wednesday, includes clips from a number of sheriffs who praise the first-term senator for helping link them to federal immigration tools. Dole's campaign said it has spent about half a million dollars to air the spot statewide for about two weeks.
When Sheriff Tracy Carter was in Burlington meeting with Senator Elizabeth Dole and sheriffs from Alamance, Guilford, Forsyth, Randolph and Rockingham counties to discuss a statewide immigration enforcement plan, the cameras where rolling for her first television commercial of the fall campaign. The ad features many sheriffs from across the state. Sheriff Carter can be heard speaking in the commercial at one meeting and is seen strategically seated next to the Senator in another meeting. Carter has attended several meetings with Dole.
The meetings have discussed section 287(g) of the national Immigration and Nationality Act, and it allows states to enter into agreements with local law enforcement agencies to perform immigration law enforcement functions, such as starting the deportation process. According to an article in the Saturday Sanford Herald, Lee County began performing its own resident status checks on criminals in its jail in January. In its first five months, the department has identified about 30 illegal immigrants who were arrested. Some have been sent to other departments for deportation, while many remain in Lee County Jail.
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