Charlotte, the crackdown
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It is one of North Carolina’s largest Democratic strongholds — the other is Wake County, which includes Raleigh and parts of the state’s university-rich Research Triangle — but it’s a place where Trump made gains in 2024 after the county shifted ever more toward Democrats in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.
The U.S. Conference of Bishops issued a Special Pastoral Message in solidarity with migrants and decrying the growing crackdown. They call for reform.
The Trump administration's immigration crackdown is focusing on a new city – Charlotte, North Carolina. The Department of Homeland Security told MS NOW that agents made more than 140 arrests there just this weekend.
Immigration agents over the weekend arrested more than 130 immigrants accused of being in the country illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday.
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Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that’s now a model for other cities
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government.
In every aspect of life, Latinos have attenuated their normal behavior and avoided critical locations, like work and school, in order to stay clear of the (enforcement) surge,” a
The Trump administration is planning to dispatch Border Patrol agents to Charlotte and New Orleans to oversee immigration operations that could involve armored vehicles and special operations teams.
The Trump administration has faced criticism and protests for its aggressive immigration crackdown in pursuit of "the largest mass deportation" ever.