Daily Update - November 17, 2025

Charlotte Web and Protecting Our Citizens

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This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Monday November 17, 2025.

Because the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office did not do its job in regard to illegal immigrants, the US Customs and Border Patrol did do its job over the weekend and arrested at least 81 people who should not be in our country.

Among those arrested is a man from Honduras who has a criminal history of aggravated assault, assault with a dangerous weapon, and driving under the influence. He has been deported twice – but always makes his way back to Charlotte.

Another one arrested was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been deported four times, comes back to Charlotte, and then commits a hit and run with a DUI and a DWI.

These are just two of the people who were drawn up in Border Patrol’s Charlotte Web over the weekend. And they all have one thing in common – local law enforcement knew about them, knew of their illegal status, knew of their previous crimes, and DID NOTHING.

Of course the liberal left responded by calling the tactics of ICE excessive, and racist. Democrat Representative Alma Adams vowed “she will not stand by and watch her constituents be intimidated or harassed.” Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles – who is always ready to stand firm with the criminals in her city – stated that these actions are “causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty.”

If Representative Adams, Mayor Lyles, the Sherriff of Mecklenburg County and others on the Liberal Left truly cared about “fear and uncertainty” they would the first ones to push for the immediate deportation of these violent and unrepentant criminals. But for the Democrats, illegal immigrants of any type are quite useful for shoring up population numbers to increase representation – and power – for themselves as well as creating a future voting bloc beholden to those who kept them in this country.

Our laws say there is a proper way to come to into this country. Our laws say that there is a proper way to behave in this country. If you are a citizen and you break those laws – you go to jail. If you are here illegally – you get deported.

Sounds like a great way to take care of that “fear and uncertainty.”

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. Thanks for listening.

Reuel Sample is the Editor-in-Chief of The Wilmington Standard. A graduate of Grove City College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he has served as both a Presbyterian Pastor and a Navy Chaplain. He is the product of a classical liberal arts education combined with real world experience in politics and business and conservative Christian worldview firmly rooted in the Reformed tradition. He is the host of several podcasts including the NHC GOP Podcast, the Pastor's Voice, and co-hosts the Nikki and Reuel Podcast Experience. An avid sailor, he has sailed around the world as a youth and to the Azores as a teen as well as extensive trips up and down the east coast of the United States. He is honored to be married to his wife Pam and makes his home in Wilmington, NC.