MELT Act: Support Immigrant Legal Defense

Also relevant to:Immigrant / non-citizen Low-income / working-class

Where it is in the process

Plain-English Summary

This bill would repeal a previous law that allowed for increased cooperation between local jails and federal immigration enforcement. It would require federal immigration agents to obtain a judicial warrant, based on probable cause, before making arrests or conducting searches in North Carolina. Additionally, the bill appropriates $4 million to provide legal services for immigrants.

No official summary on file for this bill · generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash from its full text

Votes

Sponsorship · 6 Sponsors

Democrat6Republican0Independent0Other0

D · PrimeCaleb Theodros
D · PrimeMujtaba Mohammed
D · PrimeSophia Chitlik
D · CoNatalie Murdock
D · CoDeAndrea Salvador
D · CoJoyce Waddell

Read full bill text →↓ Why am I seeing this?

Want updates?

Get notified when NC S917 moves stage

Pick a channel below. Every option is opt-in, and we tell you exactly what we store.

Email

Identified

We store your email address and the bill ID. We'll send a confirmation link first; alerts only start after you click it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Coming soon

RSS feed· Atom 1.0 + JSON Feed per bill
Bluesky· follow a CivicRadar bot post per status change
Telegram· channel or DM via bot
Discord· channel webhook
WhatsApp· via WhatsApp Business
SMS· via Twilio