Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Elected officials and immigrant advocacy organizations want answers after ICE held at gunpoint and detained a U.S. citizen in east Charlotte on Wednesday, in a targeted operation to arrest the undocumented passenger in the truck.

Atilio Portillo says ICE agents pointed a gun at his face, broke his truck windows and detained him during an arrest in east Charlotte on Wednesday.

Mecklenburg County election officials say they have no confirmed reports that federal law enforcement agents plan to appear at local polling places.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol has provided more information on how it will carry out immigration enforcement under its new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Three North Carolina law enforcement agencies have entered agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a new state law takes effect.

A 6-year-old Charlotte first grader and her mother were deported to Venezuela after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained them at a routine check-in.

Immigration judges at Charlotte’s immigration court ordered more than 18,000 removals from January through August, more than twice the number ordered during the same period in 2024.

The U.S. Forest Service said it has no additional information about the June ICE operation in the Pisgah National Forest.

A federal jury in Charlotte has convicted two protesters arrested during Operation Charlotte’s Web, the federal immigration crackdown last November.

The Hispanic Federation, a national Hispanic advocacy group, held a daylong hearing Wednesday in Charlotte to document the effects of federal immigration enforcement in North Carolina.