CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – The Hispanic Heritage Festival of the Carolinas held in Uptown has been canceled for 2025 due to concerns about deportations.
This years festival would have been the fourth anniversary at Truist Field in Uptown.
“The immigration temperature is a little bit hot right now. We are very concerned that the festival may be targeted, the families targeted, we decided to put in pause, hold it off until next year,” said co-founder of the event, Rick Herrera. “We don’t want to put our community that could be in any kind of danger.”…