U.S. Border Patrol agents are set to descend on Charlotte , North Carolina , as soon as this weekend, a sheriff’s office said Thursday.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office, which covers the city, said that federal officials had contacted Sheriff Garry L. McFadden to give him the heads-up about the operation, according to a news release shared with Newsweek .

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it could not comment on future operations when contacted by Newsweek Thursday afternoon.

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Charlotte is a Democratic-run city in a swing state with roughly 1 million immigrant residents overall—just under 10 percent of the population. The city made national news in late summer when Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on a train, promp

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