Charlotte braces for surge of immigration agents
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Gregory Bovino and CBP are headed next to Charlotte, North Carolina. That was news to city officials
Before he got a call this week from CNN about reports US Border Patrol agents might be headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, City Councilmember Malcolm Graham had no idea such a plan was even in the cards.
CBP has quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for local law enforcement officers working federal immigration enforcement.
They say there could be a chain reaction throughout our local economy as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents fill the Queen City.
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Customs and Border Patrol Commander-at-large Greg Bovino and his team are eyeing Charlotte and New Orleans as the next cities for increased immigration enforcement, according to multiple sources. The plans are preliminary and could change, the sources told ABC News. It is unclear if they would run at the same time or one city would go first.
Ten people were taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) during a joint patrol of Louisiana oyster seed grounds at the beginning of November. Though the patrols were ostensibly about policing some of the state’s recently opened oyster seed beds, federal agents tagged along in search of immigration violations.