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November 20, 2025

"We Need to Support Our Immigrants": Protesters in Charlotte Demand End to Border Patrol Raids
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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina,
Wednesday as Border Patrol agents continued to target Latinx
communities, with over 250 immigrants reportedly arrested in recent
days. This is Renee Tillett, a resident of Fort Mill, South Carolina,
who joined the protests.

Renee Tillett: "I feel it's important that we're out here, not sitting
at home on our butts, quiet about what's going on. If you're not seeing
something and saying something, you're complicit. I do not want to be
complicit. What's going on here is illegal. It's warrantless. And people
are getting picked up without proper identification, without warrants,
and that is wrong. Doesn't matter who you are. That is wrong. We need to
support our immigrants. We love our immigrants here in Charlotte."

This week, the Border Patrol expanded its North Carolina operations to
include the heavily Democratic Research Triangle region, which includes
Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, new data reported by the Chicago Tribune finds
that 97% of immigrants detained in the Trump administration's "Operation
Midway Blitz" had no criminal conviction, according to federal court
records. 


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