In October of 2015, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed into law a bill that banned counties and cities in the state from declaring themselves sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. Though they take many forms, selfdeclared" sanctuary cities" typically refuse to allocate municipal funds or resources toward immigration enforcement efforts and decline to prosecute undocumented immigrants. The North Carolina bill, HB318,'not only mandated local cooperation in federal enforcement efforts, but also prevented local authorities from accepting as valid any identification issued by foreign countries or by local authorities. Because these forms of identification are the only ones held by many undocumented immigrants, the bill took a direct swipe at the state's growing and largely Latino undocumented immigrant population. 2 Governor McCrory had local support for the measure. Rather than sign the bill in Raleigh, the state capital, he traveled an hour and a half west to sign the bill in front of the sheriff's office in Greensboro, flanked by local law enforcement officials who declared the bill would preserve law and order as well as American values. 3 That a Republican governor and Republican-