Ahearn opinion column: Raiding libraries in Alamance : News-Record.com : Greensboro, North Carolina: "We can all sleep tonight, thanks to the diligence of Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson.
That’s because even as we speak, 23-year-old Marxavi Angel Martinez is locked up in a Charlotte holding cell, to be arraigned Monday on charges of aggravated identity theft.
This came after immigration agents, accompanied by a federally sworn Alamance deputy, acted on a tip Sheriff Johnson said he got from a confidential “reliable” informer.
The tip led straight to the Graham Public Library, where agents asked Martinez, a circulation clerk, to show proof of citizenship. When she couldn’t, they arrested her at her job.
The moment a judge released her, Martinez was bound over to federal custody on suspicion of misusing a Social Security number and making a false statement on a library job form.
Now, if you listen to the bleeding hearts, you’ll hear violins. The petite former cheerleader graduated with honors from Cummings High School, they tell you. She was working her way through community college, with a dream of teaching kindergarten. She’s married with a son, age 1.
And besides, the argument goes, she herself was brought here from Mexico legally as a child, age 3, by parents who came"
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