This weekend police departments across the state will be taking part in a special "Booze It And Lose It" campaign to see if people are drinking and driving. However, a group of immigration advocates say they want to make sure the checkpoints are not used for racial profiling.

However, a group of immigration advocates say they want to make sure the checkpoints are not used for racial profiling.

Just about every three months, late-night drivers can expect to see these DWI checkpoints. This weekend another group of people will be out there.

“We want to be able to go down to checkpoints and monitor them,” said Alena Everett, who is with a coalition of groups who plan on keeping tabs on officers this weekend.

She said that they want to, “make sure that DUI checkpoints are being used to try and find drunk drivers and not being used to try and round up folks who don't have status or look Latino.”

They say they plan on videotaping or voice recording stops.

Several local attorneys will also be helping.

“There are certain rules that the police need to follow when they are having a checkpoint. They can ask for a few limited things, and they need to make sure that they treat everybody that is stopped equally,” attorney Ricardo Velasquez said.

This will be the first time anyone arrested at these checkpoints and booked into the Wake County Jail could have their backgrounds checked to see if they are undocumented immigrants under the federal 287 (g) program.

Several Wake County Detention officers graduated from the 287 (g) training program earlier this year.

Sheriff Donnie Harrison has said his office would only use 287 (g) to deport violent criminals, and detention officers can use it as a resource to find out who detainees are.

But he said that this weekend’s checkpoints will be just like any others they’ve conducted in the past.

“If I hadn’t started 287 (g) we would still be participating in this weekends checkpoints,” Sheriff Harrison said.

He invited anyone who wanted to watch how the checkpoints are conducted to check them out.

Immigration advocates say they are also concerned about other counties especially because of recent reports out of Alamance County recently.

Two high profile cases there involved people who were not taken into custody as violent criminals.

In one instance, three minor children were left on the side of I-85 when Alamance County Deputies arrested their mother, Maria Ventura, and began deportation proceedings.

Their father said the children had to wait alone for more than six hours till he drove from Maryland to pick them up.

In another instance, a librarian, Marxavi Martinez, was arrested when Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson contacted ICE Agents.

Sheriff Johnson has said Martinez was getting prenatal care, and he was tipped off about her immigration status by county health workers.

Immigrant advocates became alarmed that the Sheriff may have used confidential medical information as part of his complaint to ICE agents.