In North Carolina, a woman refused to be evacuated due to fear of deportation

An undocumented woman living in North Carolina said that during the evacuation because of the approaching hurricane Florence, she was afraid to leave her home because of a possible arrest by immigration agents of her and her family.

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Still, the woman who introduced herself Iris and asked not to give her name because of fear of deportation left her home in Wilmington, North Carolina, and went to a shelter in a nearby school after officials assured the immigrants that no one would be there arrest and deport.

“I started to worry when someone said that we should be careful at the shelter,” the woman recalls. “Someone told them that you can only get into the shelter if you have documents.”

Iris was also afraid that after her arrest she would be separated from her children. “I don’t even want to think that this could happen,” said Iris, a mother of three, as she began to cry.

Recall that after harsh public and establishment criticism, US President Donald Trump signed decree that prohibits separation of children from their parents.

Last summer, a sheriff in Polk County, Fla., Warned that police would patrol shelters for fleeing hurricanes and check identity cards as a precautionary measure, which would cause concern among illegal immigrants and defense groups that they would target. The sheriff, however, did not explicitly mention immigration status.

Wilmington’s mayor, Bill Saffo, said the city wants people to be safe and no one should be afraid to get help because of its immigration status.

“No matter what happens, if someone is in the state undocumented, we don’t care,” he said. “We care about preserving your life.”

Iris, having learned that the chief of police, Wilmington, assured people that they would not be arrested or separated from their children if they went to shelters, said that she had ceased to be afraid ever since.

Iris, who eventually went to the shelter at a local school on Thursday, recalled: “Junior said, 'Mom, I'm really afraid that our house will collapse and I don't want to go to the shelter because I don't want to be separated from you. I would prefer to die, but not to be separated."

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