Charlottes Ice

Customs and Border Patrol agents are targeting Charlotte, North Carolina in an operation dubbed Charlotte's Web. Cell phone video captured several arrests in the southern city over the weekend. Masked agents were witnessed pulling people from stores and parking lots. In one incident, agents broke the truck window of an American citizen named Willie Assetuno. Assetuno told reporters he was injured in the action. He was detained but later released as he told officers, I am an American citizen. Agents approached a landscaping crew putting up Christmas decorations but did not make any arrests. Protests against the ICE surge were also evident in Uptown Charlotte. Residents shared their views with CBS News. It's terrifying to pretty much know that at any moment a federal agent can just come out and abuse you just because of the way you look. I seriously believe that immigration is a civil issue. It's not criminal. So this doesn't make any sense to me. The action is being led by Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who was also part of similar recent surges in Chicago and Los Angeles. In a social media post, Bovino quoted the children's classic Charlotte's Web to describe the surge, pasting, wherever the wind takes us, high, low, near, far, east, west, north, south, we take to the breeze, we go as we please. That prompted the granddaughter of E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web, to speak out. Martha White, who was her grandfather's literary executor, issued a statement regarding the surge's branding. She said E. B. White, quote, certainly didn't believe in masked men in unmarked cars raiding people's homes and workplaces without IDs or s Charlotte is the fifth city targeted by Border Patrol. International DHS doc This is Inside Edition Digital.