In the popular children's book "Charlotte's Web," the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.

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Federal immigration officials used the book's title to name their latest crackdown, in Charlotte, North Carolina, "Operation Charlotte's Web."

The author's granddaughter drew a sharp contrast Sunday between the federal raids and the ideals E.B. White highlighted in the beloved book, in a statement Martha White shared with CNN.

Her grandfather "certainly didn't believe in masked men, in unmarked cars, raiding people's homes and workplaces without IDs or summons," said White, who is also her grandfather's literary ex

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