"The Trump administration is calling its new immigration sweep in North Carolina's largest city Operation Charlotte's Web. But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children's tale Charlotte's Web, said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for. He believed in the rule of law and due process, Martha White said in a statement."
"He certainly didn't believe in masked men, in unmarked cars, raiding people's homes and workplaces without IDs or summons. White, whose grandfather died in 1985, works as his literary executor. She pointed out that in Charlotte's Web, the spider who is the main character devoted her life on the farm to securing the freedom of a pig named Wilbur."
"The Trump administration and Republican leaders have seized on a number of catchy phrases while carrying out mass deportation efforts naming their holding facilities Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, Speedway Slammer in Indiana and Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska. Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official now on the ground in Charlotte, was the face of the Operation At Large in Los Angeles and Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, two enforcement surges earlier this year."
The Trump administration named its immigration enforcement sweep in North Carolina's largest city Operation Charlotte's Web. Martha White, E.B. White's granddaughter and literary executor, criticized the operation as contradicting his belief in the rule of law and due process, saying he did not support masked men in unmarked cars raiding homes and workplaces without IDs or summons. She highlighted Charlotte's Web's central theme of a spider protecting a pig's freedom. Republican leaders and the administration have used catchy names for detention sites, including Alligator Alcatraz, Speedway Slammer, and Cornhusker Clink. Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, involved in earlier surges, quoted Charlotte's Web on social media.
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