Senate Bill 153 includes multiple provisions targeting immigrant communities in North Carolina. These provisions include:
- Requiring the Department of Public Safety, Department of Adult Correction, State Highway Patrol, and State Bureau of Investigation to enter into a 287(g) agreement with ICE. This agreement would require these departments to try and determine whether an individual they are interacting with is a U.S. citizen or has legal status. If the individual's status cannot be determined, ICE must be contacted. In the case that the person is undocumented, the agencies must cooperate with requests from ICE.
- Instructing the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to ensure that State public benefit programs are not being used to benefit undocumented people beyond the extent required by federal law.
- Waiving certain aspects of governmental immunity for local governments that fail to comply with anti-sanctuary ordinances.
- Prohibiting UNC institutions from adopting any type of sanctuary policies or procedures and from preventing law enforcement officials from gathering information on the citizenship status of an individual and sharing that information with federal law enforcement agencies.
