Julian Berger
Race & Equity ReporterA fluent Spanish speaker, Julian Berger will focus on Latino communities in and around Charlotte, which make up the largest group of immigrants. He will also report on the thriving immigrant communities from other parts of the world — Indian Americans are the second-largest group of foreign-born Charlotteans, for example — that continue to grow in our region.
He majored in journalism and Hispanic studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, and has previously worked at NBC News, La Noticia in Charlotte and CNN.
-
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying warehouses across the U.S. to turn them into detention centers, and is reportedly looking at a warehouse in Concord. -
Dozens of people gathered Tuesday evening outside the eastern regional office of GEO Group in Ballantyne to protest a possible ICE detention center in North Carolina. -
Many Catholics across the Charlotte region gathered Wednesday to mark Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season. -
For many Christians and Muslims in Charlotte, Wednesday marks the start of a sacred season of reflection and fasting, with Ash Wednesday beginning Lent and Ramadan also getting underway.
-
ICE has issued an immigration detainer for a Mecklenburg County jail inmate charged with attempted murder, urging local authorities not to release him, even though ICE has not taken him into custody. -
Three months after an immigration enforcement crackdown in Charlotte left much of the city shaken, it’s still difficult to get clear answers about what federal law enforcement agents did. -
A Charlotte nonprofit is inviting the community to celebrate Afro-Latino traditions through music, dance and history this weekend. -
The Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church released a public statement on Wednesday calling for more humane immigration policies. -
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is pressing the Department of Homeland Security for answers on the U.S. Border Patrol’s Charlotte operation last November. -
Hundreds of people gathered Friday outside the federal courthouse in uptown Charlotte to protest recent actions by federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis.
