Protesters scream 'Get the f--- out of my city!' at federal agents during immigration raid

Screaming and whistles filled a wooded agelong of Charlotte, North Carolina, connected Sunday arsenic protesters surrounded national agents carrying retired Operation Charlotte’s Web, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ngo aimed astatine arresting radical with transgression migration warrants.

DHS said Friday it had "surged law-enforcement resources" into the metropolis to seizure "criminal amerciable aliens terrorizing Americans." Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the effort was meant to "remove public-safety threats and reconstruct order."

By Saturday afternoon, video from the country showed furious residents shouting, "Get the f--- retired of my city!" arsenic Border Patrol and Homeland Security agents pushed done trees amid the operation. 

"F--- you! Get out!" 1 protester screamed, waving his arms toward a radical of agents successful tactical gear. Another yelled, "Our metropolis — not yours! 

A protester shouts astatine national agents during a Homeland Security cognition successful Charlotte, N.C., connected Nov. 16, 2025. Demonstrators confronted Border Patrol and Homeland Security officers arsenic they searched for a antheral during Operation Charlotte’s Web, a national migration enforcement mission. (Oliya Scootercaster (FreedomNewsTV))

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An agent, holding up a state canister, turned and shouted back, "This is teardrop gas! Stop pursuing us!"

In different tense infinitesimal captured connected video, an cause identifying himself arsenic Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) tried to calm the assemblage arsenic protesters surrounded him with telephone cameras rolling.

Female protester: "How bash you cognize they’re amerciable earlier you cuff them? That’s a Fourth Amendment violation!"

HSI agent: "Our occupation present is to support the folks doing enforcement. We’re bound by what’s tenable nether the law."

Female protester: "You’re detaining radical who merchantability flowers, man. Families. That’s not a threat."

HSI agent: "I recognize your frustration. But this isn’t a speech erstwhile everyone’s screaming astatine each other."

The back-and-forth continued for respective minutes until the cause walked distant to different cause mounting up a drone.

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A Border Patrol cause holds a teardrop state canister portion moving done a wooded country during Operation Charlotte’s Web successful Charlotte, N.C., connected Nov. 16, 2025. Federal officers with Homeland Security and Border Patrol clashed with protesters arsenic they searched for a antheral during the migration enforcement mission. (Oliya Scootercaster (FreedomNewsTV))

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At 1 point, a protester yelled, "Seventy percent of the radical you drawback are non-violent!" Another shouted, "You’re tearing families isolated for nothing!"

Operation Charlotte's Web comes arsenic the metropolis faces intensifying scrutiny implicit convulsive crime.

Department of Homeland Security Investigations Officers run a drone successful hunt of 2 individuals who fled the country aft being stopped portion selling flowers connected the broadside of the roadworthy connected November 16, 2025, successful Charlotte, North Carolina.  (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images)

Homicides and aggravated assaults person risen sharply this year, prompting Republican lawmakers to impulse Democratic Gov. Josh Stein to deploy the National Guard. For now, the politician has resisted that telephone from Republican lawmakers, and section officials person argued that nationalist information remains a section responsibility.

"Recently, the metropolis faced 8 homicides successful 7 days. The execution complaint successful uptown Charlotte is now 200% higher than it was a twelvemonth ago," a letter from a trio of Republican lawmakers said. "According to the Fraternal Order of Police, aggravated assaults involving knives oregon guns person risen from 86 successful 2024 to 111 successful 2025, and idiosyncratic strong-arm robberies person accrued from 26 to 31 successful the aforesaid period."

A photograph of lit buildings forming the skyline of Charlotte, North Carolina. (Andrea Evangelo-Giamou / EyeEm via Getty Images)

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Charlotte is simply a racially divers metropolis of much than 900,000 residents, including much than 150,000 who are foreign-born, the Associated Press reported, citing section officials. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Department of Homeland Security and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Sheriff's Office for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Leo Briceno and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.