ICE could open NC’s first federal detention center later this year at the former Rivers Correctional Center in Winton, Hertford County. That’s according to a New York Times report which cites internal federal documents.
Concord, Cabarrus County, is among 21 cities across the US that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has either bought or plans to buy warehouses to convert into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers to house illegal immigrants.
FEMA has announced that it will soon sign an agreement to transfer the Greensboro Influx Care Facility (ICF), previously operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to FEMA for the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Helene.
As cleanup and recovery continue in western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Rep. Richard Hudson, NC-09, and North Carolina US Sen. Thom Tillis led Republican members of North Carolina’s Congressional Delegation in a letter Saturday to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell urging the federal government to use the Greensboro Influx Care Facility (ICF) to house hurricane victims temporarily and/or as a staging area.
Tillis and Hudson respond to the announcement that Greensboro ICF is to become operational.
Companies listed on the Greensboro facility contract are linked to former ICE employee Andrew Lorenzen-Strait who is currently under investigation by the congressional committee on homeland security.
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC8, accused U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra of misleading him and other North Carolinians about plans to house unaccompanied migrant children at a Greensboro facility at a hearing Wednesday.
The opening of a facility in Greensboro proposed to house 800 unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border appears imminent, possibly as soon as August.
On June 10, news broke that that starting in July unaccompanied children (UACs) from the southern border would be transported to and housed at Greensboro’s American Hebrew Academy, with the federal government hiring 800 staff members to oversee the facility. Now, North Carolina’s Republican congressional delegation has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Health...
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