Opinion

CJ editor: Trip spotlights how humanitarian crisis at border drives violence, drugs in NC

North Carolina consistently ranks within the top 10 states for human trafficking. According to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) have also focused their operations in concentrated areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.   According to a DEA report, eight counties in North Carolina serve as distribution centers for “powder cocaine,...

Donna King
Opinion

Wrongheaded immigration policy highlights much needed common sense

2022 is the worst year on record yet for deaths of migrants at the border, with over 600 bodies recovered by CBP. It’s a significant humanitarian crisis. In response to the uptick in deaths and illegal crossings, governors in Texas and Arizona have started busing illegal immigrants directly to Washington D.C. and New York City to...

Ben Goldhaber
Opinion

The beauty of American diversity

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” – The New Colossus, engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty Immigrant. What do you think of when you...

Brooke Medina

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