The Trump administration is planning to dispatch Border Patrol agents to Charlotte and New Orleans to oversee immigration operations that could involve armored vehicles and special operations teams.

The Trump administration has made the city of about 950,000 people its latest target for immigration enforcement.

Immigration advocates warn that U.S. Border Patrol officers have tended to act more aggressively during arrests than ICE agents.

Border Patrol agents will continue targeted enforcement efforts in U.S. cities with a focus on arrests and deportations

Chief Michael Banks said that USBP enforcement operations in South Florida will expand thanks to an injection of funding from the Trump administration

Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, along with his agents, are planning to leave Chicago as early as this week as they eye other locations to ramp up arrests,

Charlotte officials are responding to a handful of unverified reports that U.S. Border Patrol teams are expected to conduct an operation in the city this month. Axios and our news partners at WBTV are working to verify the information.