State police will now be acting as ICE agents
The governor's veto of SB 153, the "North Carolina Border Protection Act", was overridden yesterday:
https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S153
You can read the bill here: https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S153v5.pdf
The ACLU's summary: https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/legislation/sb-153-border-protection-act-anti-immigrant/
This bill will require the NC Highway Patrol and the State Bureau of Investigation to enter into 287g agreements with ICE, which means that they will be enforcing immigration law. In other states that have passed similar laws, like Tennessee, the highway patrol has been doing aggressive traffic stops to trawl for immigrants. If we start seeing a much more active highway patrol presence, that's probably what's going on.
There's other bad things in this bill, such as some anti-sanctuary city stuff and a requirement that state agencies turn over their information about people to DHS.