North Carolina
Vigil held to protest expected veto override of North Carolina immigration bill HB 10
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A vigil was held outside the state legislature to protest HB 10 — the bill changing the laws on how North Carolina’s sheriffs will need to process undocumented people that they’ve arrested.
That bill, vetoed by Governor Cooper in September, is expected to be overridden by the state’s Republican supermajority this week.
The vigil came just hours after President-elect Donald Trump took to social media, confirming that he would declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out the mass deportations he promised along the campaign trail.
“Where there is injustice we will stand, we will push back,” said Ana Ilarazza-Blackburn, founder of Women Leading Together and an organizer for El Colectivo.
Ilarazza-Blackburn’s been a vocal critic of HB 10 and made the drive up to Monday’s event from Moore County. She said she was stunned by the President-elect’s post about a national emergency on social media.
“It blows my mind. I never thought our country would come to this,” she said.
HB 10 would require North Carolina Sheriffs to follow new protocols should they learn someone who they’ve arrested is undocumented. It requires those sheriffs — once a court order has been issued — to keep those undocumented people in custody until federal agents from ICE can step in. It’s a law that advocates in the immigrant community say will devastate trust among North Carolina’s Latino community.
“What humane, civilized society targets at a community that has helped build them? Where’s the empathy for that and where’s the moral in that?” asked Ilarraza-Blackburn.
Willie Rowe and Clarence Birkhead, Sheriffs of Wake and Durham counties respectively, have publicly spoken out against HB 10 — arguing it takes away their ability to determine how to best serve their communities. Neither sheriff was available to comment for this story.
Conversely, the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association supports the latest version of HB 10, saying:
“The Association appreciates the legislature for its willingness not to impose onerous recordkeeping requirements on our state’s 100 sheriffs; and not to interject the Attorney General into these judicial matters.”
Monday’s vigil in opposition to that bill — attended by dozens of advocates for North Carolina’s Latino and immigrant communities — stuck a different tone.
“We can see the different ways that the attacks and the racism and the anti-immigrant sentiment is going to be more out there,” said Pilar Rocha-Goldberg, CEO of El Centro Hispano.
Rocha-Goldberg said they’ll continue to organize despite the news out of Washington on Monday.
“We saw it in the past. We saw it here, ice coming to take people from our community with really not the right way to do it. So, yeah, we are very concerned about that,” she said.
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AVERY COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Former Madison County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Bronis Coy Phillips was processed on Thursday, June 25, in a North Carolina county, according to court documents.
The warrants were served in Avery County on behalf of Madison County. He is now being held without bond, according to the court paperwork.
SBI ARRESTS FORMER MADISON CO. CHIEF DEPUTY FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY INVOLVING INMATES, STAFF
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation announced that Phillips was arrested on June 14 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He’s expected to face charges in N.C., as News 13 previously reported.
According to court records, Phillips faces multiple felony charges, including:
- Furnishing controlled substances to inmates
- Furnishing deadly weapons to inmates
- Involuntary servitude
- Two counts of assault with a firearm on a detention facility employee
COURT RECORDS REVEAL NEW DETAILS IN FORMER MADISON CO. CHIEF DEPUTY ARREST
He was also charged with two misdemeanors:
- Furnishing alcoholic beverages to inmates
- Furnishing tobacco products to inmates
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The NCSBI said the charges stem from an investigation into alleged criminal activity involving inmates and detention facility staff.
North Carolina and NC State, scheduled to meet just once in the men’s basketball regular season for the second consecutive season, are working to schedule a nonconference meeting in Greensboro in December, WRAL has learned.
The Atlantic Coast Conference rivals had played annual games in Raleigh and in Chapel Hill for more than 100 years before last season when the teams met just once in Raleigh. This season, the ACC scheduled just one meeting between the schools in Chapel Hill.
The additional meeting, which is not finalized, would be played Dec. 15 in Greensboro, according to a source.
The 18-team ACC moved from 20 conference games to 18 before last season in an attempt to improve the league’s NCAA Tournament credentials. It worked as the league received eight bids to the NCAA Tournament in 2026, but it also created some scheduling changes, including the elimination of a second game between NC State and UNC in most seasons.
The current conference schedule dictates that each school plays two teams twice (a primary partner and a variable partner), plays 14 teams once and misses one school altogether. In 2026-27, UNC will play Duke (primary) and Louisville (variable) twice and won’t play Clemson. NC State will play Wake Forest (primary) and California (variable) twice and won’t play Syracuse.
Greensboro was the longtime home of the conference office. The ACC men’s basketball tournament has been held at First Horizon Coliseum, formerly the Greensboro Coliseum, 29 times – the most in league history.
For decades, the ACC played a true round robin among its members — a format that became unworkable as the league grew to 12, 15 and, now, 18 basketball-playing schools.
State lawmakers have pursued various measures to force schools in the UNC System to play each other, citing the economic impact of such meetings. North Carolina and NC State are UNC System schools.
A 2024 bill would have required the two ACC schools to play each other and other in-state public universities in football and basketball. A 2025 bill, aimed at potential conference realignment, would have required that NC State and UNC play each annually in football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball. The Senate’s 2025 budget proposal would have required more basketball games between UNC, NC State and smaller schools across the state. The budget would have added UNC and NC State to the schools that receive annual distributions from sports betting tax revenue.
None of those measures have become law.
NC State and North Carolina have been conference mates since 1911, first in the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association, then in the Southern Conference and now the ACC. Both have been members of the ACC since its 1953 founding.
There is some sad news from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s popular Barn Owl Live Cam.
Wildlife officials say a Great Horned Owl entered the barn Wednesday around midnight and killed one of the barn owl owlets. Biologists have not been able to determine which owlet was lost.
They have confirmed it was one of the three youngest birds in the nest. The Wildlife Commission says the incident is heartbreaking but also a natural part of life in the wild.
Great Horned Owls are one of the main predators of Barn Owls, and encounters between the two species do happen. The attack was captured on the live camera.
Officials say the video also shows an extremely rare moment when the adult female Barn Owl fought the Great Horned Owl on top of the nest box. Despite the loss, the surviving owlets are expected to continue growing over the coming weeks.
They will lose their fluffy down feathers, begin exploring outside the barn, and continue developing hunting skills.
The Wildlife Commission says some of the young owls could leave the nest as early as July.
After leaving the nest, they usually travel alone and may eventually move hundreds of miles from where they hatched. The Barn Owl Live Cam remains available for the public to watch.
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