“I’m carrying it here right now, which is sad,” he told NBC News.
The city of Raleigh, northeast of Charlotte, was bracing for more arrests on Tuesday after city Mayor Janet Cowell confirmed in a Monday phone call that immigration officers from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement already were on the ground.
In a statement issued late Monday, she said, "We are committed to protecting our residents and to following the law.".
Several small businesses in a shopping center also shut their doors Monday after immigration authorities were seen smashing the car window of a Honduran-born U.S. citizen, Willy Aceituno, over the weekend.
Aceituno told NBC affiliate WCNC he was getting breakfast when he noticed immigration authorities chasing two people.
Three vehicles then surrounded his car, and agents began asking about his immigration status.
DHS accused Aceituno on social media of “trying to distract officers so others could evade the law. »
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