Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson has announced they will no longer accept Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees.
In a Facebook post, Sheriff Johnson cited recent changes to North Carolina law brought about by the NC House Bill 307 (Iryna’s Law”) governing pretrial release, electronic monitoring, and detention of individuals charged with violent offenses taking effect on December 1.
The bill was named in memory of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light-rail train last month in an attack that sparked outrage nationwide…