By Brad Brooks

(Reuters) -A Border Patrol operation targeting suspected undocumented migrants in Charlotte, North Carolina has ended, local officials said on Thursday, following five days of sweeps by federal agents that ended in hundreds of arrests and sparked protests by local citizens.

Charlotte was the latest city run by Democrats targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push, which has seen federal agents using aggressive tactics in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and elsewhere to apprehend immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally. Local residents have taken to the streets in protest and in efforts to warn people about the presence of immigration officers.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden said in a statement that federal officials confirmed

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