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Back from federal immigration agents launched big operations in North Carolina.
This is back in the middle of November.
One of the things that local reporters did to get a sense of what ICE and Border Patrol were doing,
the scope of it, the kinds of things they were up to, was that they requested 911 calls.
When the city releases these two reporters,
they alter the voices a little to protect people's identities.
This woman's saying that all morning, these black vans have been showing up at her building,
pretending to be exterminators so that people will open their doors.
And she thinks they're ice and everybody's scared.
There have been reports from around the country of immigration agents pretending to be contractors or utility workers or police to trick people and then mad them.
And the dispatcher does not know what to do with this.
Okay.
So what did you need police assistance with?
Did you just want us to know that this is happening in your neighborhood, ma'am?
The woman says no, she wants the police to come.
because people are intimidated and it's private property.
And how is it okay to say they're exterminators when they're not?
The picture that you get from these 911 calls,