In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Trump administration’s latest anti-immigration crackdown garnered headlines over the weekend both for “how inhumane and aggressive” the operations by US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement were, as one journalist said , and the action that local residents immediately took to protect their neighbors from arrests and raids.

“I just started recording them,” said Rheba Hamilton after federal agents pulled up to her house in a vehicle and intimidated two Latino men who were decorating the trees in her yard. “They left.”

As the agents pulled away, she yelled, “Get the hell out of my yard, you assholes!”

Hamilton, who told The New York Times she had tried to warn the workers against hanging the Christmas lights due to the depo

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