County can’t afford to serve extra families.
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Kristin Collins
Beaufort County, known for sweeping views of the Pamlico and Pungo rivers, is working toward a new distinction.
Leaders say they want to make their rural Eastern North Carolina county the toughest place in the country for illegal immigrants.
The county commissioners are meeting with a lawyer to help identify http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3978 illegal immigrants from the county.
“They’re coming to the United States illegally and bringing their http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3802 wife and children,” said Hood Richardson, the Beaufort commissioner who is leading the charge. “Those families are falling on our social welfare systems. We can’t afford that.”Beaufort County, about 100 miles east of Raleigh, has already become a leader in the state in discouraging undocumented Hispanic immigrants. The seven-member Board of Commissioners has declared English its official language, removed Spanish signs and bilingual automated phone answering systems and has begun tracking the number of Spanish-speaking people who use social services.
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