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Author's relative condemns 'Operation Charlotte's Web'
Los Angeles Times
|November 19, 2025
The Trump administration is calling its new immigration sweep in North Carolina’s largest city “Operation Charlotte's Web.”
PROTESTERS in costume demonstrate outside the Department of Homeland Security in Charlotte, N.C.
(RYAN MURPHY Getty Images)
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.
This story is from the November 19, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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