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Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina , are preparing for a looming federal immigration crackdown that they described on Friday as an invasion, with the city pledging to stand up for migrants against the federal raids.

Local leaders encouraged Charlotte residents to protest peacefully and record agents' actions from a distance, condemning the Trump administration's actions in targeting migrants during sweeps in other cities across the country.

"We are living in the strangest of times," Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell, the granddaughter and wife of immigrants, said on Friday. "A time when a felonious reality TV personality is occupying the White House. Unfortunately, we have seen this movie before,

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