When top Trump immigration goon Gregory Bovino and his 200-strong “Green Army” of armed and masked Border Patrol agents were suddenly dispatched from Chicago to North Carolina, it wasn’t immediately clear why.

Its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, said the mission was to target “violent criminal illegal aliens” who had “flocked” to the state because “sanctuary politicians” supposedly made it a haven.

Local officials and immigration experts, though, were baffled, given there are far larger immigrant hubs—and Charlotte, the state’s biggest city, does not rank in the top 10 large U.S. cities for violent crime.

The timings have, the Daily Beast can reveal, also raised eyebrows in Washington, D.C.

“Why Charlotte was chosen has been a big question; they could’ve gone anywh

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