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Faith leaders and community members gathered at St. Peter Catholic Church in uptown Charlotte on Saturday evening for a prayer service in support of immigrant families. -
Around a dozen residents spoke out against a possible ICE detention center during Thursday’s Concord City Council meeting, urging local leaders to take a public stand against the proposal. -
The federal government is asking a judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit that challenges warrantless immigration arrests in North Carolina. -
Dozens of people gathered outside the federal courthouse in uptown Charlotte on Friday to protest the potential opening of three ICE detention centers in North Carolina. -
Newly released Mecklenburg County tax data suggest areas of Charlotte heavily impacted by last November’s Border Patrol surge saw a sharp decline in business activity.
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A new report from the Brookings Institution estimates that increased immigration enforcement in the Charlotte area cost the region nearly 10,000 jobs in the first half of 2025. -
Several Charlotte advocacy groups are calling on Bank of America Stadium officials, FIFA and local law enforcement to keep ICE agents away from Sunday’s soccer match. -
Six months after the city of Charlotte set aside $100,000 to help households financially impacted by Border Patrol’s November crackdown, the city says none of that money was used. -
The Department of Justice has sworn in nearly 80 new immigration judges nationwide as immigration courts face mounting backlogs, including three assigned to Charlotte’s immigration court. -
A judge at Charlotte’s immigration court on Thursday ordered the removal of a Honduran asylum seeker, even though he was killed more than a year ago.
