Except for a handful of co-workers who had not shown up for work, Tuesday started as a regular day for Fernando Vazquez, who works as landscaper at commercial jobsite in Cary.
News that federal immigration agents were moving from Charlotte to the Raleigh area had quickly spread among the Latino immigrant workforce in the Triangle.
But Vazquez, a Raleigh-born citizen who graduated from Mount Vernon College and Career Academy this year, went to work without hesitation along with his father, whom he said is a Mexican immigrant with a legal work permit…