In a statement released Tuesday, ICE said the suspect, identified as Saim Irgi, 39, allegedly fought with officers and shouted the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar” – “God is great” – during the struggle before being subdued and arrested.

Trump administration officials are vigorously defending the U.S. government’s immigration enforcement efforts, including citing St. Augustine’s “City of God.”

The Trump administration is planning to dispatch Border Patrol agents to Charlotte and New Orleans to oversee immigration operations that could involve armored vehicles and special operations teams.

AUSTIN — Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have been deputized as federal immigration officers under two agreements the agency entered into with Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month.

Amid an immigration enforcement crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, U S Customs and Border Patrol agents conducted an operation Saturday that resulted in a church s cleaning crew fleeing the

As Border Patrol agents descend on Charlotte — and are reportedly headed to Raleigh too — the state's top Republican leaders are supportive of the immigration enforcement action.

States that will not accept the deportation of failed asylum seekers or foreign criminals are to face a “sliding scale” of penalties, from the removal of fast-track visa services to bans on entry documents for everyone from tourists to senior politicians.

Anxiety is high across Charlotte, North Carolina, residents and the city's mayor pro tem told ABC News, with a surge of border patrol agents conducting the third day of immigration enforcement under “Operation Charlotte’s Web.