Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D), the frontrunner for his party's Senate nomination, has been exposed for caving to pressure from anti-ICE dark money groups who successfully lobbied him to reject common-sense immigration enforcement legislation in 2019.
According to a damning Washington Examiner investigation, Cooper was targeted by an anti-deportation organization with financial ties to a shadowy dark-money network. After their pressure campaign, Cooper rejected legislation that would have helped Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) track illegal immigrants who had committed crimes in North Carolina.
This revelation comes at the worst possible time for Cooper, as President Trump's mass deportation agenda gains momentum nationwide. While the Trump-Vance administration works to secure our borders and remove dangerous criminal aliens, Cooper's track record shows he was willing to obstruct federal immigration enforcement at the behest of radical left-wing donors.
Dark Money Influence Exposed
The anti-ICE group that successfully lobbied Cooper operates within a web of dark money organizations that funnel millions of dollars to advance the radical left's open borders agenda. These shadowy networks have spent years undermining immigration enforcement across the country, and Cooper apparently was more than willing to play ball.
Cooper's capitulation to these dark money interests represents everything wrong with the Democratic establishment. While North Carolina families worry about border security and the impact of illegal immigration on their communities, Cooper was busy doing the bidding of out-of-state special interests who profit from chaos at our southern border.
Now Cooper wants to take his anti-ICE, pro-illegal immigration agenda to the U.S. Senate, where he would undoubtedly work to obstruct President Trump's deportation efforts and border security initiatives.
America First vs. Dark Money Democrats
This scandal perfectly illustrates the choice facing North Carolina voters: they can elect another dark money Democrat who puts special interests ahead of American citizens, or they can send someone to Washington who will support President Trump's America First agenda.
With Trump's deportation operations ramping up nationwide, the last thing Americans need is another Senate Democrat working to protect illegal immigrants at the expense of law-abiding citizens. Will North Carolina patriots let this dark money puppet represent them in Washington?