CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Federal agents began fanning out across immigrant enclaves in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday and arresting people, expanding the Trump administration’s crackdown to another Democrat-led city.

Charlotte, the state’s largest city that has rapidly grown and diversified in the past decade, had been bracing all week for the arrival of U.S. Border Patrol, led by Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official who was in charge of similar operations in Chicago and Los Angeles this year that drew significant criticism over their aggressive tactics.

On Saturday, Charlotte’s immigrant hubs were largely deserted as word spread that federal agents were in town.

El Salvadoran restaurants were closed. Street vendors who usually sell mangos on weekends were absent. And reside

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