The Basics
North Carolina should work with the federal government to implement an immigration policy that will best protect and serve the people of North Carolina. What is needed is comprehensive immigration enforcement and reform dedicated to making North Carolina safe, protecting jobs for North Carolina workers, and attracting skilled – legal – immigrants committed to the values of self-sufficiency and freedom.
• Zero tolerance for criminal illegal aliens
- Encourage every county to enroll in the 287(g) or CAP programs
- Guarantee that illegal alien criminals stand trial
- Mandate that no local ordinances contradict federal and state laws
• Prevent identity theft
- Provide law enforcement with the technology to confirm the identity and legal status of drivers who do not possess a valid license
- Make it a felony (Class I) to furnish false identification information with the intent of fraudulently obtaining a state driver’s license or identification card
- Review North Carolina’s driver’s license database to detect possible cases of fraud
- Remove consular identification cards from the list of documents that may be used to prove residency
- Add driving without a valid license to the list of offenses that require verification of immigration status
Protect Jobs for North Carolina Workers
• End Discriminatory Labor Practices
- Define as an “unfair labor practice” the firing of a U.S. citizen or permanent legal alien if the employer also employs undocumented workers
- Require employers to withhold taxes from undocumented workers
- Eliminate the state income tax deduction for wages paid to workers who fail to provide their employer with a Social Security number
• End the Black Market for Illegal Labor
- Expand the use of the E-Verify System for public employers
- Require any private employer that receives state economic incentives to participate in the E-Verify system
• Put North Carolina Workers First
- Prohibit illegal aliens from attending any community college or public college or university
- Prohibit illegal aliens from enrolling in taxpayer-subsidized job training and adult literacy classes
- Review state policies to ensure that illegal aliens are not receiving professional and commercial licenses
Give Immigrants a Hand-up, Not a Handout
• Encourage Self-sufficiency and Transparency
- Encourage high-skilled legal immigration
- Eliminate all optional state and local public benefits for illegal aliens
- Require state and local agencies to verify the citizenship of applicants for public benefits
- Make English the exclusive language of state public business
- Disqualify seasonal agricultural workers from state unemployment benefits
- Require hospitals to report expenditures on uncompensated care for illegal aliens
- Require schools to provide annual enrollment counts of illegal alien students
- Create an Illegal Immigration Task Force charged with determining how many illegal aliens are in North Carolina and what impact they are having on state resources