"Building Real 'Secure Communities': Addressing the Effects of Local/Federal Cooperation in Immigration Enforcement" is a training initiative designed to equip community-based organizations in the Triangle with the skills necessary to systematically collect data documenting abuses of human rights abuses occurring under ICE ACCESS programs. The Triangle CF helped the Southern Coalition for Social Justice train these groups so the data could be shared with policy and legal advocates in order to effectively engage in public policy debate about local enforcement of immigration law.
Advocacy groups, Democratic elected officials and voters challenging North Carolina's new redistricting plans want rulings on their legality by mid-February.
The Raleigh News & Observer covers the press conference challenging Carrboro's anti-loitering ordinance in Carrboro, which makes it harder for day laborers to find work. SCSJ staff attorney, Christopher Brook, who continues to work with community members to urge the town to rescind the ordinance, states 'we're intentionally violating the ordinance' to show how much free speech it prohibits.
