Trump administration turns to Border Patrol for immigration operations

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST

Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are expecting Border Patrol agents to arrive in the city in coming days for a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Camilo Montoya-Galvez, an immigration reporter at CBS News about why the administration is increasingly turning to Border Patrol agents for its immigration operations.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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