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NC House Overrides Governor’s Veto, Enacts Immigration Detainer Law Amid Protests
Annie Dance ^ | July 30, 2025 | Annie Dance

Posted on 08/03/2025 6:39:24 AM PDT by TheDon

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina House voted 72–48 on Tuesday to override Governor Josh Stein’s veto of House Bill 318, officially enacting the Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act. The controversial legislation mandates that sheriffs notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within two hours when releasing an inmate subject to an immigration detainer and requires a 48-hour hold for federal pickup. They also considered several other bills.

Republicans enacted a total of eight bills that Stein had vetoed. With each of those bills passed, support was secured from at least one Democrat in the House to meet the required supermajority threshold—some of the vetoed bills received support from multiple Democrats.

The override followed nearly 15 minutes of passionate floor speeches and public outbursts. But it was Representative Carla Cunningham (D-Mecklenburg) who commanded the floor with a forceful defense of her prior support for the bill, only to be interrupted by jeers from the gallery and a procedural challenge from a fellow Democrat.

Rep. Cunningham began her remarks with a personal appeal rooted in her identity as an American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS), arguing that unchecked immigration can destabilize vulnerable communities and that assimilation must be expected.

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Good job North Carolina!

Sensible take for a Democrat.

1 posted on 08/03/2025 6:39:24 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

Error? Should that be 15 HOURS of emotional debate? 15 minutes doesn’t sound too impressive


2 posted on 08/03/2025 6:43:14 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: TheDon

How did the governor justify vetoing this pro-American legislation?


3 posted on 08/03/2025 6:55:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

“How did the governor justify vetoing this pro-American legislation?”

Not a hard question to answer - he’s a Democrat.

The HARDER question is why in hell are so many people in states like North Carolina SPLITTING THEIR BALLOTS to elect Democrat governors, but Republican legislatures? Do the voters in those states have ANY CLUE as to just who the Democrats are?


4 posted on 08/03/2025 7:01:53 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: BobL

“North Carolina SPLITTING THEIR BALLOTS to elect Democrat governors, but Republican legislatures? Do the voters in those states have ANY CLUE as to just who the Democrats are?”

…Dems lie and cheat their way in. Ground game, as in lawn signs, makes a big difference as to repeatedly implant the name so like a robot, they vote. And most are pretty damn stupid and/or vote for “free” stuff.


5 posted on 08/03/2025 7:08:59 AM PDT by albie
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To: BobL

Many in the South think of the Democrats as gentlemanly types. Those days are long gone.


6 posted on 08/03/2025 7:12:14 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: TheDon

No. Commie Josh vetoed it. Republicans overturned his veto.


7 posted on 08/03/2025 7:12:25 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: TheDon
Wow, are Blacksfinally realizing - decades late - that their Democrat plantation masters are betraying them by importing illegals to take their jobs?
8 posted on 08/03/2025 7:12:53 AM PDT by montag813
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To: TheDon
The override followed nearly 15 minutes of passionate floor speeches and public outbursts. But it was Representative Carla Cunningham (D-Mecklenburg) who commanded the floor with a forceful defense of her prior support for the bill, only to be interrupted by jeers from the gallery and a procedural challenge from a fellow Democrat.

Amazing, a sane Democrat...

The jeers were from the PEANUT GALLERY!!

9 posted on 08/03/2025 7:14:00 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: BobL

Josh Stein, just the newest face to the “moderate” Democrat governors we’ve had since Jim Hunt.

Mike Easley
Barv Purdue
Roy Cooper

All leftists, 100% the time on anything that really matters.


10 posted on 08/03/2025 7:15:35 AM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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To: Hyman Roth

“Republicans overturned his veto.”

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And the state of North Carolina will be a lot better off for it. One step back from the cultural chaos and lawlessness that plagues some other states.


11 posted on 08/03/2025 7:24:12 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: montag813

Not only take their jobs - but turn their living space into “Little Mexico” with businesses and signs all in Spanish and ESL classes using up precious educational dollars.

California is a good example of this as the “new” Spanish speaking invaders took over black sections of Los Angeles like Watts and Compton and pushed the blacks out - while politicians these people keep voting for like Maxine Waters stayed safe in their homes outside of the districts they represent- while continuing to claim to displaced, jobless blacks that the greatest threat to them is White Supremacist.


12 posted on 08/03/2025 7:30:15 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: BobL

How can Democrooks win without illegal votes?


13 posted on 08/03/2025 7:52:55 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: BobL
The HARDER question is why in hell are so many people in states like North Carolina SPLITTING THEIR BALLOTS to elect Democrat governors, but Republican legislatures? Do the voters in those states have ANY CLUE as to just who the Democrats are?

That's a good question that certainly applies here in Kentucky. We've had only 2-3 Republican governors in the last 120 years, but Trump won the state about 63-37 three times.

14 posted on 08/03/2025 7:55:45 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: BobL
The HARDER question is why in hell are so many people in states like North Carolina SPLITTING THEIR BALLOTS to elect Democrat governors, but Republican legislatures?

Mark Robinson turned out to be a poor opponent.

From Wikipedia:
On September 19, 2024, CNN reported that Robinson had made many graphic remarks on the online pornographic forum Nude Africa from 2008 to 2012 [ . . . ][1] The remarks made on Nude Africa included expressing support for slavery, using various homophobic, racial, and antisemitic slurs, enjoying transgender pornography, admitting to peeping at women showering in public showers without their knowledge when he was 14 and continuing to fantasize about the experience as an adult, self-identifying as a "perv", and calling himself a "Black Nazi" and stating his support for Adolf Hitler over Barack Obama as United States president.[1][42] Another remark labelled Martin Luther King, Jr. a "commie bastard" and then stated: "If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!"
15 posted on 08/03/2025 8:00:44 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: TheDon

Now shove constitutional carry down Stein’s throat.


16 posted on 08/03/2025 8:08:03 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: BobL
In North Carolina the Republicans in the State Houses run the State not the Governor. All of Cooper's so called accomplishments were either cooperating with the GOP or involved veto overrides. Conservatives control both Houses and the State Supreme Court. They recently passed election reform via a veto override and in another veto override took control of the department the runs election. Governor through the executive branch no longer controls who is appointed. That was big as they failed to cleanup voter rolls and approved the mass mailing out of mail in ballots. With that in place and redistricting GOP should easily hold both Houses and it will be harder for Cooper this time around.
17 posted on 08/03/2025 8:21:13 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Robinson challenged the porn claims in a lawsuit, true or not the damage was done. Stein ran a dirty campaign and his only accomplishment was hey I did my job. He won't have it so easy next round.

The reason Robinson was so weak, he is just a normal non-lawyer man who became famous but had skeletons in his closet. A lot of Stein's attacks fell short because what he accused Robinson of is a normal part of life for poor people. Thomas Sowell said poverty levels are a moving target, people move in and out of poverty. Have I ever written a rent check knowing the money would not be in the bank the day the check arrived, but the check would clear a couple of days latter, yea, I had no choice. Did I cash a check at a grocery store to feed my children knowing it would bounce, yes, I was desperate. I paid the $10 return check fee and made good on the bill on payday. Of course that immediately put me behind insuring more problems before the next payday. Such is life when you are poor, something a silver spoon baby like Stein never experienced. Eventually jobs improved and I got back on track. Those and a failed business were the subject of Stein's attacks until the porn accusations hit. That sunk Robinson. Wife Would not vote for him. Robinson was not a politician or a lawyer, he could have turned the accusation against Stein, but his weak efforts failed.

18 posted on 08/03/2025 8:48:20 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

19 posted on 08/03/2025 9:37:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: OldGoatCPO
#18: "Have I ever written a rent check knowing the money would not be in the bank the day the
check arrived, but the check would clear a couple of days latter, yea, I had no choice."

Ouch. I remember that myself. It sucks to be poor. It was best in the age before computers when
checks had to be physically moved around. If you had a bank account in a different Federal
Reserve District than your local bank, it usually bought you three days. (what was it called, "float"?). Technically it was a crime called "kiting". But it was unenforceable as long as the checks cleared.

Thank God that I've come a long way from those days. Thank you Father God. Your Glory, not mine.

20 posted on 08/03/2025 11:17:39 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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