I found an article on CNN titled "Feds accuse North Carolina sheriff's office of racial profiling". *insert eye roll* I had a bias interest in the article simply because my boyfriend is from Charlotte. I visited for the first time ever over labor day, and boy, it was a narrow-minded culture shock. Hence the eye roll. We live in a very free-going city. I am from the suburbs of Houston where things are definitely more conservative, but nothing like I found in North Carolina. Life still feels very segregated there. There was a white neighborhood, a black one, and a hispanic one. No one really crossed paths with one another. It was very strange to me. Going out to the bars was even divided.
The article claims that the sheriff's office of Alamance County were racial profiling for illegals. The Fed's had stepped in to ignite an investigation. Hispanics were much more likely than the rest of the population to be pulled over and arrested. Complications arose because of an agreement between the Fed's and the sheriffs office, giving the sheriff's office more power to find and deport illegals.
I just found it very interesting how this can STILL be going on. I found it an interesting read and maybe someone else will too.
