Former RNC chairman Michael Whatley tells Fox News Digital that Democratic opponent Roy Cooper's repeated opposition to sheriffs working with ICE laid the groundwork for Charlotte raids.

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

Thousands rally in North Carolina amid a spike in ICE arrests, with officials and residents split over the enforcement surge.

More than 30,000 students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County reportedly did not attend school on Monday, Nov. 17. This comes as ICE conducted raids in Charlotte, N.C., over the weekend, arresting more than 200 people.

The Citizen Times reported that Asheville "may be a targeted city" in future deployments by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Manheimer.

Rheba Hamilton was sipping coffee on her porch Saturday morning as she watched the two workers she‘d hired begin draping her front yard tree with lights in the quiet Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood.

After hundreds of arrests in Charlotte, immigration authorities are targeting areas around the state’s capital. Vanessa Gonzalez is an immigration attorney in the Wilmington area who says her clients are panicked.

The U.S. Department of Justice says immigration raids in Rochester, Buffalo, and Charlotte, North Carolina, led to the arrest of two leaders of a plumbing business.

Authorities arrested an estimated 81 people Saturday, which would mark the largest single-day immigration sweep in state history.

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

Federal agents swept into Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday, escalating Trump’s widening immigration crackdown and turning the city into the latest focal point for large-scale arrests in Democratic-led areas. Charlotte is a Democratic-leaning city of about 950,000 people and a financial services hub.

Newly surfaced video from North Carolina shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers smashing car windows and dragging residents during an early-morning operation, triggering nationwide outrage.