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Last week, Leonardo Williams, the mayor of Durham, North Carolina, received a call from the office of Governor Josh Stein. Stein’s office had heard that the Trump administration was going to launch an immigration-enforcement operation in Charlotte and possibly in Raleigh, but it didn’t have much more information. Over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection agents swarmed Charlotte, ultimately arresting about 370 people.

But Williams didn’t hear anything about operations in Durham until Tuesday morning. He was in Washington, D.C., for meetings when someone sent him a video of what were appa

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