Operation Charlotte’s Web, a sweeping enforcement initiative in North Carolina’s largest city, highlights a rapidly growing threat that federal agents confront daily, whether on city streets or at the U.S.-Mexico border, former DEA country attaché Wesley Tabor and retired Border Patrol agent and former Terrell County sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland told Newsmax on Sunday.
“These types of operations are something we’ve had and conducted for many decades, both under Republican and Democrat administrations,” Cleveland said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” adding that criminal suspects increasingly resort to extreme measures.
“When we’re trying to apprehend those that are either smuggling illegal aliens or when illegal aliens lead us in those high-speed pursuits, they’ll do whatever it takes, putting the U.S. citizens and public in danger,” Cleveland said.
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