Chicago<\/a>, took to social media to document some of the arrests he said had reached more than 80. He posted pictures of people the Trump administration commonly dubs \u201ccriminal illegal aliens\u201d as a damning characterization for people living in the US without legal permission who have alleged criminal records. That included one of a man with an alleged history of drunk driving convictions.<\/p>\n\u201cWe arrested him, taking him off the streets of Charlotte so he can\u2019t continue to ignore our laws and drive intoxicated on the same roads you and your loved ones are on,\u201d Bovino wrote on X.<\/p>\n
The latest effort by federal law enforcement has been labeled \u201cOperation Charlotte\u2019s Web\u201d as a play on the title of the children\u2019s book but conjuring an image of people caught in a trap.<\/p>\n
At Camino, a nonprofit group that offers services to Latino communities, some said they were too afraid to leave their homes to attend school, medical appointments or work. A dental clinic the group runs had nine cancellations on Friday, spokesperson Paola Garcia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLatinos love this country. They came here to escape socialism and communism, and they\u2019re hard workers and people of faith,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cThey love their family, and it\u2019s just so sad to see that this community now has this target on their back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recent operations led by Bovino in Chicago and Los Angeles triggered a flurry of lawsuits and investigations over questions about use of force, including wide deployment of chemical agents against protesters.<\/p>\n
Democratic party leaders in both cities said that agents\u2019 presence inflamed community tensions and actually led to violence.<\/p>\n
Bovino and other Trump administration officials have called the use of force appropriate, citing a growing threats on agents\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees CBP, did not respond to inquiries about the Charlotte arrests. Bovino\u2019s spokesman did not return a request for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n
DHS has not offered many details about who it has been arresting. For instance in Chicago, the agency only provided names and details on a handful of its more than 3,000 arrests in the metro region from September to last week.<\/p>\n
By Sunday, reports of CBP activity in Charlotte were \u201coverwhelming\u201d and difficult to quantify, Greg Asciutto, executive director of the community development group CharlotteEast, said in an email.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past two hours we\u2019ve received countless reports of CBP activity at churches, apartment complexes and a hardware store,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
City council member-elect JD Mazuera Arias said targeting houses of worship was \u201cjust awful\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are sanctuaries for people who are looking for hope and faith in dark times like these and who no longer can feel safe because of the gross violation of people\u2019s right to worship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top border patrol commander touted dozens of arrests in North Carolina\u2019s largest city on Sunday as Charlotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-574979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115561762834070634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}