The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news stories, viral artificially generated videos, and misinformation online that claim Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are abusing and kidnapping illegal immigrants as well as Americans.

Local officials and community leaders had urged residents to stay safe as they braced for increased immigration enforcement actions.

Americans have been tackled, tased, beaten and shot by immigration authorities. The government has issued news releases about the cases and also denied they are happening.

Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism.

DHS and ICE work tirelessly to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants amidst opposition from Democrats.

Homeland Security responded to him on social media with Castillo-Chavez. The post read, “Castillo-Chavez is a criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica. His criminal history includes indecent liberties with child, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and solicitation of a child by a computer. North Carolina refused to hand him over to ICE.”

Federal agents broadened President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, arresting 130 people in the first 48 hours, including an MS-13 gang member. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),

Anxiety is high across Charlotte, North Carolina, residents and the city's mayor pro tem told ABC News, with a surge of border patrol agents conducting the third day of immigration enforcement under “Operation Charlotte’s Web.