U.S. Border Patrol coming to Raleigh on Tuesday, mayor says, as NC crackdown continues

People detained earlier in the day are taken to a parking lot on the far north side of the city before being transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on October 31, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Sector for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Gregory Bovino was part of the caravan of federal officers making the arrests amid President Donald Trump’s administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” an ongoing immigration enforcement surge across the Chicago region. (Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images)

U.S. Border Patrol is sending immigration agents to Raleigh, Mayor Janet Cowell confirmed Monday evening, days after the agency launched an operation in Charlotte.

Cowell told NC Newsline she had spoken with the governor’s office, Raleigh police and the city manager, and it was “our understanding through other law enforcement partners that the Border Patrol is already in Raleigh.”…

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