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With honking horns and locked doors, here’s how one Charlotte community faced the immigration enforcement crackdown (NC)
Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | November 21, 2025 | CNN Bitter LOSERS

Posted on 11/21/2025 5:58:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

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The REASON for this article in the first place:

"It’s not an entirely surprising message in a county where a third of the votes cast in the last presidential election were for Donald Trump. Ortiz shrugs.

'Something is wrong that they don’t appreciate us here,' he says. 'We come here to work hard, to make this country better.'

While Ortiz keeps watch along the street, bakery owner Manolo Betancur stops by several times a day to make sure federal agents haven’t returned and to talk to the growing crowd that cheers loudly as he raises a large American flag alongside the coquí.

'My biggest concern right now is our children need to have their fathers and mothers next to them,' Betancur says.

'A lot of these people are so scared, they’re not going to have Thanksgiving (dinner),' adds Ortiz, standing a few feet from the locked entrance to Manolo’s."

1 posted on 11/21/2025 5:58:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“the songs on the loudspeakers are about all the Spanish you hear”
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Written as if that’s a BAD thing


2 posted on 11/21/2025 6:01:21 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“They don’t have no right to be in here,” she says

Oh the irony.


3 posted on 11/21/2025 6:06:18 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Gee...I wonder if ICE has the ability to deal with locked doors? And as for honking horns...they can use the same kind of ear protection I use at the shooting range.
4 posted on 11/21/2025 6:06:27 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

...make this country stronger...

What BS you here to take and not contribute outside of making crappy houses.


5 posted on 11/21/2025 6:06:42 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: V_TWIN
“the songs on the loudspeakers are about all the Spanish you hear”

I actually like the Spanish music they play on the overhead speakers in Hispanic supermarkets. Beats the heck out of Rap, Hip-Hop, and anything after the 80s (and a lot in the 80s and earlier). It has a melody, real instruments, and real singers. Music.
6 posted on 11/21/2025 6:08:08 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: V_TWIN
"the growing crowd that cheers loudly as he raises a large American flag...".......THIS IS WHAT I REMEMBER
7 posted on 11/21/2025 6:08:30 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: V_TWIN

“The manager walks over to the store’s entry and stands watch, ready to lock the front door at the first sign of federal agents. Her friendly eyes turn slightly dark.”

So, she is a shape shifter.

“They don’t have no right to be in here,” she says.

And by the way yes, they have a right, it is called enforcing the law you violate.


8 posted on 11/21/2025 6:08:41 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The NC facebook pages show overwhelming support for ICE although you would never know it from watching the lying news on TV. 19000 kids didn’t come to school in Raleigh which shows the size of the problem.


9 posted on 11/21/2025 6:10:00 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, Good Lord.

The Gaslight Media is stoking insurrection and flouting federal law.

If they expect to enforce their skeevy blue local and state laws, but not federal laws, they’ve got another think coming.


10 posted on 11/21/2025 6:10:16 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Legal immigrants and non-expired green card holders should have no fear of ICE agents as long as they are non-violent if agents asked for their documentation.


11 posted on 11/21/2025 6:14:50 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
All along Central Avenue, the heart of this immigrant illegal aliens-supporting, America-hating business community in East Charlotte, stark black-and-white signs now posted outside most businesses warn: "ICE is not welcome here.”

There. Fixed it.

12 posted on 11/21/2025 6:18:31 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: yldstrk
19000 kids didn’t come to school in Raleigh which shows the size of the problem.

But I'll bet they all still showed up for their free school meals. As far as the classes go, it's doubtful they would have learned anything anyway ...

13 posted on 11/21/2025 6:19:41 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Light them up. Hard to watch out for ICE when the phone wont stop ringing and the MAGAs wont stop picketing. Address:
Sav/Way Foods Latin Supermarket
4459 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205
Phone: (704) 535-5006


14 posted on 11/21/2025 6:22:42 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: AppyPappy

Nailed it!

EC


15 posted on 11/21/2025 6:24:17 AM PST by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
'My biggest concern right now is our children need to have their fathers and mothers next to them,' Betancur says.

They can do this in their home country.

The vile Democrats brought those millions of illegals here because they want their votes. They don’t care about the drain on our economy and the crimes they commit, they only care about power and the destruction of our country.

Shame on the Democrats for using and exploiting those people, but they’re here illegally and need to be sent home.

No sympathy here.

16 posted on 11/21/2025 6:29:41 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Carl Vehse

Exactly.


17 posted on 11/21/2025 6:35:08 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Perhaps:

All SNAP and WIC vendors should have to agree to allow ICE agents on the property to the extent food safety inspectors can go.

Perhaps federal building permits to allow ICE enforcement should be required if the permitted activity would involve interstate commerce. ICE agents should be able to go wherever building inspectors can go if any person is doing permitted work on the site.

PPACA fixing is a Congressional must.


18 posted on 11/21/2025 6:44:14 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
'We come here to work hard, to make this country better.'

Why not go back to where you came from and make THAT country better? Nobody ever seems to ask that question.

19 posted on 11/21/2025 6:45:43 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Give them machetes and transport to Nigeria to protect Christianity and make the country better.


20 posted on 11/21/2025 6:49:41 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (אני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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