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.

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.

Immigration agents over the weekend arrested more than 130 immigrants accused of being in the country illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday.

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.