ICE Raids Expand in North Carolina Amidst Community Fear and Lack of Local Coordination

There are new

details coming in on

what city might be next,

actually the next target

for Ice and Border Patrol

and the president's

immigration crackdown.

Sources now tell CNN

that the Trump administration's

top border official

is expected in New Orleans

early next month.

Raids in North Carolina

have been ongoing.

More than 200

people

have been arrested

in Charlotte, North Carolina,

over the last three days.

And it's not just Charlotte.

Federal agents

were also have also been seen

in Wake and Durham counties.

CNN's Dianne

Gallagher is in Charlotte

tracking all of this for us.

What is the latest that you're

picking up Dianne?

You know, Kate,

we are in East Charlotte,

where many immigrant

owned businesses and immigrants

in the city tend to live.

And if I am quiet

for just a moment,

you hear nothing.

It is dead out here.

The businesses are closed.

There are not people

walking on the streets.

We didn't see kids

waiting at the bus stop.

And that's kind of how you can

describe the city of Charlotte

right now.

We're on day five of this.

Quote operation

Charlotte's Web from Customs

and Border Protection.

And you can see

the chilling effect

across the city.

Citizens, undocumented people

who all say

that they just

feel uncomfortable right now

being in their city.

Now, you mentioned that

the operation has sort of moved

beyond Charlotte's city limits.

We're talking about

two and a half,

three hours

north there

in Wake County and Cary

and Durham and Raleigh,

but also in the neighboring

cities of Charlotte right now.

The Huntersville mayor

saying there's been activity

in her city right now.

We are looking at

what the effect has been here,

the school system

saying that again on Monday,

more than

30,000 students were absent.

That is nearly triple

the average number of kids.

So they are seeing this effect.

DHS says so far

they feel like

they're having quite

a fruitful operation here.

Talking about those

more than 200 arrest

people in the community,

though say

they are going

to continue fighting.

Back at the Mecklenburg

County Board of Commissioners

last night,

they passed a resolution

saying they supported

their immigrant neighbors

here in the city of Charlotte.

And people spoke out.

Violence

for political purposes

is terrorism.

What is what is happening

in the streets of

Mecklenburg County

is not public safety.

It's not security.

It's meant to instill fear.

Now, CNN sources have indicated

that Gregory Bovino

and at least 250 officers

will head to New Orleans

that first week of December.

But the governor

of North Carolina says he's

not exactly

sure when the operation here

in Charlotte will end.

Josh Stein says that though

he has contacted

the white House,

no one has responded

to his reach

outs,

that he has not been in contact

with CBP about the operation

and has no idea

when they will actually leave

the Queen city.

That seems to be

that seems to be

a consistent throughline

with all of these operations.

Is that absolute

no coordination

with local officials,

as is traditional.

Dianne,

thank you

so much for that reporting.

We want justice, you say how!

you say how

ICE out of Raleigh now!

Immigration officials

in North Carolina

spotted in more cities,

and the people of the state

want them out.

Protesters

taking to the streets

as more than 200

arrests are made in Charlotte.

Mom and pop shops

shutting their doors

out of precaution.

More than 30,000 students

in the Charlotte area

kept home from school

on Monday.

The Mecklenburg County

Board of Commissioners

passed a resolution last night

affirming

constitutional protections

for immigrant communities.

Now, while the move is

mostly symbolic,

it is aimed at helping

calm some of the fears.

I feel fear

just for being Latina.

And I asked one of them

why they had deceived us.

They had told us

they were going

to look for criminals,

but they are not looking

for criminals.

They're only

following the profile

we have

that we are Latinos, Hispanics.

They're pursuing us.

We're like at war in the city.

I want to take

this to the group chat

for a couple of reasons.

One Chuck

the recent

Supreme Court

ruling says that

agents are allowed to question

people based on

how they look, the language

they speak.

Kavanaugh saying, look,

it's typically brief.

Those individuals go free

right after they make it clear

that they're U.S. citizens.

How is this playing out

in reality to you

when you see someone

with a quote like that

or just what you're seeing

in these cities?

The terror is real.

And we were just talking

about Virginia and New Jersey,

and I bring it back there

and we'll connect it,

because we knocked on 100,000

Latino doors

and Passaic, new Jersey.

You saw the big swing

in that vote from Trump

back to Mikie Sherrill.

And when we were talking

to Latinos at the door,

they were angry

that the process

hasn't come down

like like

Trump had talked about.

But at the center of everything

was this anxiety

in a immigrant community

about these Ice agents

that are masked,

that are there, that are

picking up law abiding

citizens, their neighbors,

their friends.

They were like, sure,

we were all about

getting bad people

out of our country.

Deport all the criminals,

but not our neighbors.

Did you see in North Carolina,

the fastest growing state

in the country

of Latino population

over the last 25 years?

And you also look at this state

where it's probably got

the most vulnerable Senate race

coming up in the next

midterm elections.

That's less than a year

from now.

That's one of the reasons

why I wanted to talk about it.

Dustin. It's a purple state.

We did actually see

a meaningful

swing in new Jersey

in the exact

coalition of voters,

some Latino voters

that Republicans said, look,

look what we can do.

We can make gains here.

And those gains look eroded.

What do you see

in a state like North Carolina,

where the political questions

really live?

Well, in new Jersey,

it's might seem strange

to some people,

but that's largely

because Donald Trump

was on the ballot,

and he seems to be the one

who is able to win

over those voters.

Looking at national points

in the November

Harvard Harris Poll,

it might

be surprising to some folks.

It's actually surprising to me.

54% still say

that they would like to see

all of those immigrants

who were here

illegally to be deported

and here illegally, illegally,

when people are picked up

who are legally here.

Do those images

social media videos

resonate

when I'm talking about like,

do you see the media coverage?

Obviously.

And it can

inspire fear for folks tonight

and I get that. But,

this has been

the issue that ultimately 2024,

the economy, the lawfare,

the assassination attempts,

of course,

had an impact on the election,

but it largely turned

on the immigration issue

and so continue are still good.

You don't see red flags yet?

I don't personally, but I also

I am just telling you

what the public opinion

is to your point

about the media.

I want to play for you

what Pope Leo had to say.

Because, you know,

they could put these videos out

without us.

Here he is.

We have to look for ways

of treating people humanely

and treating people

with the dignity

that they have.

But when people are living

good lives

and many of them

for ten, 15, 20 years,

to treat them in

in a way

that is

extremely disrespectful,

to say the least,

and there's been some violence,

unfortunately,

this has been also followed up

by bishops

who put out a video

also agreeing with the Pope.

I know that

DHS is proud

of what they are doing.

They talk about,

I think 527,000

have been removed

under the Trump

administration's leadership.

This is

following up on a promise.

Do they see any red flags

from the last election, like,

help me understand

their approach?

Well, I think the white House

is actually really supportive

of what DHS is doing.

I think to your point, yes,

there are a lot of polls

that show that the,

American voter is relatively

still supportive

of this idea of

we need to be deporting

people who are in this country.

What they aren't

supportive though

in polls and

and anecdotally,

that I've heard from folks

across the political spectrum

of these really harsh videos

that look like they're

just kind of pulling people

off the street.

And so I think that

there is a risk there

for the white House.

But, you know, Donald

Trump himself has said

not enough of that is happening

in various

different interviews.

And so I think you're going

to see them

continue to push,

obviously, Greg Bovino

being in,

North Carolina and,

and Border Patrol chief,

a lot of questions

raised about his use

of force in Chicago,

but he's really been elevated,

at a really kind of,

accelerated scale by DHS

and by the white House

to be in these positions

and to kind of lead the front

in these new Democratic cities,

which should be mentioned.

Really important

to say here,

that our immigration system

as a whole

has been broken since 911.

It's almost been impossible

to come here, quote

unquote legally.

So a lot of people

have come to this country

and have

followed all the rules,

except maybe

crossing the border,

and they contribute $28 billion

to Social Security.

You make it clear

the rules are different now.

All right.

As you're saying,

you're giving money

to Social Security.

You're working

and paying

Social Security taxes.

But I think

from the white House

perspective,

what they're saying

is that what you see in this,

in the streets

and on the videos

is not a huge

problem to them now.

Okay. We'll see.

Those are your videos

you're talking about.

We'll see if there's

more of them.