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November 17, 2025

Protests Erupt After Trump Admin Targets Charlotte, North Carolina, for Mass Deportation Campaign
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Masked federal immigration officers fanned out across Charlotte over the
weekend, sparking protests as the Trump administration shifted its mass
deportation campaign to North Carolina's largest city. Democratic
Governor Josh Stein said the agents were carrying out racial profiling
and stoking fear.

Gov. Josh Stein: "We've seen masked, heavily armed agents in
paramilitary garb driving unmarked cars, targeting American citizens
based on their skin color, racially profiling and picking up random
people in parking lots and off of our sidewalks."

Among those targeted were landscapers decorating Christmas trees and
congregants of an east Charlotte church volunteering to tend a garden.
In another incident shared widely on social media, masked federal agents
pulled over Willy Wender Aceituno Medina, a Honduras-born U.S. citizen,
and forced him from his vehicle.

Willy Wender Aceituno Medina: "No. If you break it, you will pay for it.
If you break it, you will pay for it. If you break my window."

CBP agent: "Get out!"

Willy Wender Aceituno Medina: "Why did you do this, sir? Why are you
doing this?"

Aceituno told reporters he warned the agents he was a U.S. citizen but
that they didn't believe him. He suffered cuts to his arm and a neck
injury. He later filed a police report over the broken glass.


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