The organization America's Voice announced the launch of a new billboard campaign in the Charlotte area to denounce what it considers violence and abuses related to the mass deportation policies of President Donald Trump's administration.
The advertisements published during the early elections The events taking place in North Carolina and across the country carry the message: “END THE VIOLENCE” and are part of an $8,800 campaign running simultaneously in five states: North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas.
The initiative seeks to draw attention to the consequences of immigration operations carried out during the last 18 months and their impact on immigrant families and communities.
Immigration operations in Charlotte
In North Carolina, the campaign refers to the so-called “Charlotte's Web Operation”, a Border Patrol operation that took place in Charlotte in mid-November 2025 for a week.
During that deployment, city residents reported encounters with federal immigration agents in the vicinity of churches, apartment complexes, and commercial establishments.
America's Voice cited in a statement the figure of more than 1,100 people who were arrested in North Carolina during the operation and in the period immediately followingOf that total, only 30% had a criminal record.
The organization maintains that the actions of immigration authorities have generated concern in various communities across the country, particularly due to arrests made by masked agents. family separations and the operations in work places and neighborhoods.
Polls reflect rejection of current deportation policies
America's Voice also highlighted the results of a recent survey of NBC News on the perception of Latino voters regarding President Trump's immigration policies.
According to the data cited in the statement, two out of three Latino voters believe that Trump's deportation policies have gone too far, while 69% disapprove of his handling of immigration.
The statement also refers to information published by PoliticoAccording to which voters who are not part of Trump's MAGA base are more than twice as likely as his supporters to consider the campaign too aggressive mass deportations.
According to America's Voice, these results reflect a growing rejection of the immigration control strategies implemented by the federal administration.
Families in North Carolina have seen it up close
Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America's VoiceHe stated that the campaign aims to remind people of the consequences that, according to the organization, immigration operations have had on local communities.
“Families in North Carolina know how this deportation machine works because they have seen it up close,” Cárdenas said in the statement.
The director noted that during Operation Charlotte's Web, agents turned churches, apartment complexes, and supermarket parking lots into locations where they sought to detain immigrants.
Cárdenas blamed President Trump and his allies in Congress for pushing these policies and asserted that the billboards are intended to to prevent them from forgetting its consequences.
“He has gone too far and he needs to stop,” he said.
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Location of billboards
In the Charlotte area, America's Voice reported that the advertisements are located at two points along major road corridors:
- Interstate I-485, at the height of Westinghouse Boulevard, south of Charlotte.
- Interstate I-85, near exit 54.
The billboards display the message “North Carolina: End the Violence”, accompanied by the website endmassdeportation.org and the hashtag #EndMassDeportation
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