After a surge in Border Patrol activity in North Carolina's largest city over the weekend, including dozens of arrests , Gov. Josh Stein said the effort is “stoking fear," not making Charlotte safer.

The Trump administration has made the Democratic city of about 950,000 people its latest focus for an immigration enforcement surge it says will combat crime, despite fierce objections from local leaders and declining crime rates . Charlotte residents reported encounters with federal immigration agents near churches, apartment complexes and stores.

“We’ve seen masked, heavily armed agents in paramilitary garb driving unmarked cars, targeting American citizens based on their skin color, racially profiling and picking up random people in parking lots and off of our sidewa

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