Map: Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops in US cities

Published November 17, 2025 2:14pm ET



In the first two days of the Trump administration‘s immigration crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, over 130 illegal immigrants have been arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers.

The crackdown, dubbed “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” is part of a larger, tough-on-crime deployment surge of federal officers and National Guard troops nationwide in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.

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