Nick Delacanel

We started to see this crackdown Saturday morning when the city woke up to dozens of Border Patrol agents driving through Charlotte in unmarked vans.

especially along the city's major immigrant corridors.

And very quickly, videos started circulating online of agents chasing people down sidewalks, breaking the car window of a man who later said he was a U.S.

citizen.

Agents were also filmed questioning landscapers who were putting up Christmas lights in a front yard.

Agents arrested 81 people on Saturday, the first day of the operation, according to Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino.

Around Charlotte, agents were seen detaining people outside laundromats, auto shops, supermarkets, front yards, even a church.

Outside an East Charlotte Walmart, construction worker Lopez Nunez says he fears for his undocumented wife and newborn, he's keeping them home.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyle says agents are causing unnecessary fear.

It's unclear how long the operation will last.

For NPR News, I'm Nick Delacanel in Charlotte.

Agents were filmed smashing a man's car window and pulling him from a vehicle in South Charlotte.

On the city's east side, restaurants locked their doors as agents chased a man into a laundromat and tackled an employee at a nearby car repair shop.

The shop's owner, who didn't want her name used for fear of retribution, said the man was her lead mechanic.

Just blocks away, a woman filmed agents who stopped her landscaping crew as they were putting up Christmas lights, then let them go after questioning.

For NPR News, I'm Nick Delacanel in Charlotte.