Trump administration targets Charlotte for immigration crackdown
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:06.1 | We don't need immigration and custom and force disrupting our city, creating fair in our city and workplace, trying to divide our community. |
| 0:18.5 | The Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants goes from Chicago to Charlotte. |
| 0:24.3 | It's Friday, November 14th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Shiko Tha Uri. |
| 0:36.6 | Today on the show, after a spectacular surge, AI stocks are struggling. |
| 0:42.4 | So I think the AI bubble is a bubble, and it will pop. |
| 0:46.3 | But I think of it more like the dot-com bubble. |
| 0:49.6 | And Vibe Magazine was once a beacon for nuanced coverage of music and culture. |
| 0:54.8 | Now it's merging with Rolling Stone. |
| 0:57.3 | It's sad because it's the end of a legacy of something that was so critically important to the culture. |
| 1:04.5 | And by that I mean hip-hop culture and to a lesser extent, black culture. |
| 1:08.5 | But first, border patrol agents are expected to arrive in Charlotte, |
| 1:12.8 | North Carolina, as soon as tomorrow. That's according to the sheriff there. These agents are coming |
| 1:17.9 | from Chicago, which for months was the focus of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal |
| 1:23.3 | immigration. Today, Democratic Representative Aishaha Do of North Carolina's General Assembly |
| 1:28.8 | said the agents aren't needed. |
| 1:30.7 | We don't have borders here in North Carolina that need to be protected. We don't need to be |
| 1:35.6 | protected from Virginia, Tennessee, North, North, South Carolina. |
| 1:38.9 | Let's bring in Camilla Montoya Galdes. He's an immigration reporter for CBS News. |
| 1:46.3 | He's also been reporting on why this administration is using Border Patrol agents more and more. He joined Peter O'Dowd with the latest. |
| 1:52.0 | We were the first to report last week, Peter, that Border Patrol would be, in many ways, |
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