Updates About Deportee Samuel Oliver-Bruno And 287(g) In NC

By Amanda Magnus,

Published April 23, 2019 at 12:10 PM EDT

A group of sanctuary leaders — Samuel Oliver-Bruno (left) with other sanctuary leaders at a summit last summer in Durham.

reveals what some are calling alarming communications between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the services arm of federal immigration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Obtained documents trace how the two arms of federal immigration coordinated in the deportation of North Carolina resident Samuel Oliver-Bruno. Oliver-Bruno was in sanctuary in Durham until ICE agents detained him at a biometrics appointment, which they were alerted to by USCIS.

Host Frank Stasio talks to reporter about these stories and the latest updates in immigration policy in North Carolina. Vasquez is a senior reporter on immigration for Rewire.瓜神app. She also talks about a bill based by the North Carolina House earlier this month that would require sheriffs to cooperate with ICE.

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Amanda Magnus

Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other 瓜神app shows including Tested and CREEP.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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