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NC needs a law like Texas and Florida to charge illegal aliens with trespassing simply for being in our state when they are in the country illegally.

Commented: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 @ 12:09 pm By: borderhawk

I agree that Hammonds has been a good sheriff, and Coleman wasn't. We do not need a rerun of the Coleman era. I know some of the Coleman crowd have sour grapes over his loss, but that should not be the basis for another primary.

As an individual, a person has an absolute right to support anyone they want to. However when one is entrusted with a position of leadership in a party organization, if they want to go against that party in a race, they have an ethical obligation to resign from that party post. It is the lack of ethics by Cox in continuing in that position under those circumstances that is very troubling. Our sheriff should be of the highest ethical standards and Cox does not reflect that.

Commented: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 @ 7:51 am By: Conservative Voter

South Carolina mandated use of E-Verify for all employers in the state more than a decade ago. Other states such as Florida have also done this. All federal contractors are required to use E-Verify. This system, although imperfect, does a good job in helping employers curb the number of illegals being employed in their respective states and nationwide.

Commented: Friday, March 14th, 2025 @ 3:31 pm By: John Heermann

As an Independent, I personally do not care if you are a Democrat or Republican or who you support, Scott Hammonds has been a great sheriff and I will continue to support him! #TEAMHAMMONDS

Also, as Bubba said: "Ernie Coleman was one of the worst sheriffs", if not, the worst in my lifetime that is!

Commented: Friday, March 14th, 2025 @ 11:31 am By: David Winstead

There is a very good reason why someone supporting a Democrat should not be sitting in a Republican Executive Committee meeting. He would have access to senstive informatoin to pass on to the Democrat.Anyone with personal integriy would immediate resign from such an obvious conflict of interest whether the rules allowed it or not. Our sheriff should be someone of unquationable personal integrity and someone who willingly engaged in this conflict of interest just does not qualify. The fact that he did not immediately resign on his own when he started to support the Democrat, but waited to be confronted after that was discovered speaks volumes.

Commented: Friday, March 14th, 2025 @ 11:21 am By: Rino Hunter

Now, less than a year after California let illegal aliens into the Medi-Cal state health plan, that plan comes up $3.4 Billion short to finish out the year. Giving free health care to illegal aliens is a real dumb idea and very costly to taxpayers.
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Commented: Friday, March 14th, 2025 @ 8:39 am By: borderhawk

It's Beaufort County's version of All in the Family. Theres the matrimonial relations between the two boards, and there are also the situations where there are school and commission board members with their offspring employed by the Beaufort County School system. Aw, I bet there is never any conflict of interest there.

Commented: Friday, March 14th, 2025 @ 4:52 am By: Van Zant

This is why we must have patriotic and intelligent presidents; not corrupt, ignorant, not patriot presidents like Joe Biden.

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Florida has done a lot to rid itself of illegal aliens by strict mandates on use of E-verify by employers to confirm legal status. Many illegal aliens have left the state shown by a dramatic decline in illegal alien hospital care. But $660 Million after those restrictions were put in place is appalling. Liberal states like California, New York, and Illinois are paying a lot more. Maybe ICE should stake out hospital Emergency Rooms to arrest illegal aliens for deportation.

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 11:57 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wow, what a great idea to let citizens help root out these parasites and send them home. What is happening to hospitals in Florida is happening all over the country, and that makes American citizens have to pay more for our medical care and our medical insurance. Just one more reason we need to send the illegal aliens home where they belong.

Hospitals need to be freed from the statutory obligation to care for illegal aliens other than acute emergencies, for which they should be stabilized and given a plane ticket home. Chronic conditions should never be on the hospital's dime. The illegal alien should be given a plane ticket home for care.

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 10:14 am By: borderhawk

This is great news for education and for parents in Texas. I wish we could do the same thing here in NOrth Carolina.

Commented: Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 @ 8:04 pm By: Rino Hunter

All of these climate doom predictions have turned out to be nothing but hot air every time the date they were supposed to happen passes. Chicken Little should indeed be the symbol of the climate alarmist movement. Or maybe the European farmers have an even better one. They call it "climate communism" with a hammer and sickle as the climate alarmist symbol.

Commented: Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 @ 9:54 am By: Concerned Taxpayer