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On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Protesters marched in Charlotte, North Carolina today as Border Patrol agents began making arrests in a citywide immigration crackdown. Nick Delicanel from member station WFAE has more.
Hundreds rallied in uptown Charlotte, demanding Border Patrol leave the city. Hours earlier, agents were seen arresting people across several immigrant corridors. At one East Charlotte car repair, the owner Jessica Arias says agents tackled an employee who tried to run and took him away in a van.
He's one of the best workers here. So the Border Patrol is not here for criminals. They are taking working people.
Some restaurants lock their doors with customers inside. Other businesses closed. In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said it's surging agents to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and to remove public safety threats. For NPR News, I'm Nick Della Canale in Charlotte.
Los Angeles is experiencing a strong seasonal storm with several inches of rain falling across the region through Sunday. From LAist, Thanyel Martinez has our reports.
In Malibu, local officials advised residents to seek higher ground and avoid moving water.
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Above the Palisades' burn scar, reports of rock slides and mud had people fearing the worst. Flash flood warnings stretched from the far northwest of LA County to its eastern edges Saturday. Streets flooded in Compton and Camarillo, and in the city of L.A., dozens of trees were knocked down by high winds. Forecasters say the worst is over, and showers will taper off into the week as a new storm approaches. For NPR News, I'm Daniel Martinez in Pasadena.
A protest by thousands of people in Mexico City turned violent today. The protest was organized by young people who say they're speaking out about systemic issues, including corruption. And as NPR's Ada Peralta tells us, another issue of concern is impunity for violent crimes.
What happened here is a small town mayor was murdered at the beginning of November. And this mayor, he was the mayor of Uruapan, Michoacan. And he had taken a full frontal approach to fighting organized crime. in his city. And what he said is, you know, we're going to shoot first and ask questions later. And then November 1st, on Day of the Dead, he was shot dead in the middle of his town in front of a large crowd. And protests erupted almost immediately in his town. They were asking for justice. They were asking for those responsible to be held accountable. And now the protests have spread to Mexico City.
That's NPR's Ada Peralta with our report from Mexico City. President Trump issued two new pardons this weekend that are related to the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. One of the pardons was given to a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents. The agents were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol. This is NPR News. Disability rights activist Alice Wong has died. The MacArthur Genius Grant winner died Friday in San Francisco. She died from an infection that's according to her friend and fellow activist Sandy Ho. Wong was 51 years old and PR's Chloe Veldman has our remembrance.
Alice Wong was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project. The group highlighted disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. Wong also received acclaim for her 2022 memoir, Year of the Tiger and Activist's Life, edited several works on disability and wrote a column for Teen Vogue. Disability justice organiser Yomi Sachiko-Young spoke about Wong in an interview earlier this year with NPR member station KQED.
Alice is my comrade in political struggle. She is my friend. She's a foodie. She's an artist. She's a bit bougie, which I love.
Alice Wong was born in Indiana in 1974 to immigrant parents from Hong Kong.
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