The concerns surrounding Trump’s immigration clampdown in the Tar Heel state speak to a tension at the center of the president’s immigration agenda.

The mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, said that federal agents will be continuing their operations in the area on Tuesday.

Wake County Public Schools Superintendent Robert P. Taylor issued guidance supporting student absences amid anxiety over recent ICE raids in North Carolina.

Border Patrol agents arrested more than 250 people in Charlotte this week and, according to reports, could begin operations in Louisiana and Mississippi as soon as next week.

Police in Concord, North Carolina, say four people were injured when gunfire erupted in a crowd during an annual tree lighting ceremony Friday evening.

U.S. immigration agents have arrested more than 130 people across Charlotte, North Carolina during the first days of an enforcement blitz.

On Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it had launched “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” claiming that North Carolina was overrun by criminal undocumented immigrants because of “sanctuary politicians.

Raids in Charlotte and other cities capped a year of bitter fights over immigration in a rapidly diversifying swing state - a battle that both Democrats and Republican officials say could echo into the next presidential election.