{"id":294307,"date":"2025-11-16T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294307\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:18:07","slug":"federal-immigration-agents-launch-crackdown-in-charlotte-dhs-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294307\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal immigration agents launch crackdown in Charlotte, DHS announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal immigration agents on Saturday began operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, the latest target of President Trump&#8217;s widening crackdown on illegal immigration, the Department of Homeland Security announced.<\/p>\n<p>DHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/11\/15\/dhs-launches-operation-charlottes-web-target-criminal-illegal-aliens-terrorizing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> it officially launched an operation dubbed &#8220;Charlotte&#8217;s Web&#8221; to target immigrants living in the Charlotte area illegally. CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-plan-to-leave-chicago-area-sources-say\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> last week that the Trump administration was preparing to deploy teams of Border Patrol agents to Charlotte, including outspoken Commander Gregory Bovino, who had led a weekslong, controversial crackdown in the Chicago area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed,&#8221; DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. &#8220;There have been too many victims of criminal illegal aliens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media on Saturday appeared to depict green-uniformed Border Patrol agents carrying out arrests in the Charlotte region.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of Border Patrol agents are expected to participate in the Charlotte operation, which could involve armored vehicles and special operations teams, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/charlotte-new-orleans-border-patrol-immigration-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">internal government documents<\/a> obtained by CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s effort has already garnered strong criticism from Democratic officials in North Carolina, including Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, who said in a statement alongside other local leaders that the operation was &#8220;causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the operation in Charlotte, Border Patrol&#8217;s focus is expected to shift to New Orleans, where officials are planning to send as many as 200 agents to launch an operation dubbed the &#8220;Catahoula Crunch,&#8221; CBS News reported Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal immigration agents on Saturday began operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, the latest target of President Trump&#8217;s widening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,790,3,2256,21,75210,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-294307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-carolina","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-department-of-homeland-security","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}