At least 81 migrants, including Mexicans and Hondurans, have been detained in the operation 'Charlotte's Web' after it began over the weekend in North Carolina's largest city, where Governor Josh Stein accuses the Border Patrol of 'fanning the flames of fear.' The Democratic politician denounced seeing 'masked, heavily armed agents in paramilitary attire driving unmarked cars, focusing on U.S. citizens based on their skin color, racial profiling, and grabbing people randomly in parking lots and driveways.' 'This is not making us safer. Everyone wants to be safe in their communities, but the actions of too many federal agents are doing the exact opposite,' Stein stated in a video. The state governor called on the public to record the actions of federal agents with their phones and to protest peacefully, following weekend protests by hundreds of citizens against the presence of ICE and CBP, similar to those seen in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland. On social media, the case of Willy Aceituno, a U.S. citizen born in Honduras, went viral. He alleged that immigration agents broke his car window in a parking lot and threw him to the ground despite having his documents. However, the DHS accused him of 'erratic behavior' that sought to impede the work of federal forces, and also reported that an agent was injured near University City when a citizen crashed their vehicle during an operation. Before Charlotte, Border Patrol agents were involved in the offensives launched by the White House in Los Angeles in June and Chicago in September.
