Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A senior Border Patrol official said Sunday that 81 "illegal aliens" have been rounded up in raids in Charlotte, N.C., in an operation dubbed "Charlotte's Web."
Federal agents arrived in the city Saturday to launch the operation, with businesses closing in the city as people began to be arrested and detained in local neighborhoods.
"Illegal aliens with criminal histories and warrants don't hang out in front of big box hardware stores? Well, then how did we find this illegal alien from Honduras there?" Greg Bovino, commander-at-large of the agency, said on social media in a post that included a photo of a crying woman he detained in Charlotte.
Bovino said another person he arrested, from Honduras, had been ordered to leave by an immigration judge in April.
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