{"id":7503,"date":"2025-11-16T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/11\/16\/us-immigration-crackdown-arrests-under-way-in-charlotte-north-carolina-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:22:28","slug":"us-immigration-crackdown-arrests-under-way-in-charlotte-north-carolina-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/11\/16\/us-immigration-crackdown-arrests-under-way-in-charlotte-north-carolina-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"US immigration crackdown, arrests under way in Charlotte, North Carolina &#8211; Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Agents from ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security have been deployed as part of Trump\u2019s latest anti-immigration operation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>United States federal officials have confirmed that an immigration crackdown \u2013 the latest by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration \u2013 is under way in North Carolina\u2019s largest city, Charlotte, as agents were seen making arrests in multiple locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans should be able to live without fear of violent criminal illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors,\u201d Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement on Saturday, according to The Associated Press news agency.\u00a0 \u201cWe are surging DHS [Department of Homeland Security] law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/fact-check-do-ice-officers-really-have-federal-immunity-in-the-us\">Fact check: Do ICE officers really have \u2018federal immunity\u2019 in the US?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/us-democratic-congressional-candidate-indicted-for-chicago-ice-protest\">US Democratic congressional candidate indicted for Chicago ICE protest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/23\/donald-trump-backtracks-on-plans-to-surge-military-to-san-francisco\">Donald Trump backtracks on plans to \u2018surge\u2019 military to San Francisco<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Local officials, including Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, criticised such actions, saying in a statement they \u201care causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to know we stand with all residents who simply want to go about their lives,\u201d said the statement, which was also signed by County Commissioner Mark Jerrell and Stephanie Sneed of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg education board.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte is a racially diverse city of more than 900,000 residents, including more than 150,000 who are foreign-born, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government hadn\u2019t previously announced the push. But Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden said earlier this week that two federal officials had told him that customs agents would be arriving soon.<\/p>\n<p>Paola Garcia, a spokesperson with Camino \u2013 a bilingual nonprofit serving families in Charlotte \u2013 said she and her colleagues have observed an increase in Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pulling people over since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, what we\u2019re seeing is that there have been lots of people being pulled over,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI even saw a few people being pulled over on the way to work yesterday, and then just from community members seeing an increase in ICE and Border Patrol agents in the city of Charlotte.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local organisations responded by holding trainings, trying to inform immigrants of their rights, and considering peaceful protests.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s administration has defended federal enforcement crackdowns in cities like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/6\/11\/is-trump-right-about-a-migrant-invasion-in-los-angeles-what-facts-say\">Los Angeles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/8\/trump-calls-to-jail-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-in-immigration-dispute\">Chicago<\/a> as necessary for fighting crime and enforcing immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s drive to deport millions of immigrants has prompted allegations of rights abuses and myriad lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>But Governor Josh Stein, a Democrat with a Republican-majority legislature, said Friday that the vast majority of those detained in these operations have no criminal convictions, and some are American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>He urged people to record any \u201cinappropriate behavior\u201d they see and notify local law enforcement about it.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department had emphasised ahead of time that it isn\u2019t involved in federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agents from ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security have been deployed as part of Trump\u2019s latest anti-immigration operation. United States federal officials have confirmed that an immigration crackdown \u2013 the latest by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration \u2013 is under way in North Carolina\u2019s largest city, Charlotte, as agents were seen making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}