Granddaughter Of 'Charlotte's Web' Author Shreds DHS For Using Quote From Beloved Book

Source: Huff Post

Nov 17, 2025, 11:43 PM EST


The granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of “Charlotte’s Web,” blasted the Trump administration after the Department of Homeland Security used the beloved children’s book’s title for its immigration crackdown.

On Saturday, DHS announced that it was launching “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” its name for the immigration sweep of the Charlotte, N.C., area. Federal immigration agents made more than 130 arrests in the region over the weekend, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

Gregory Bovino, a top Border Patrol official, bragged about arrests made in Charlotte and quoted from the children’s book in a social media post. “Wherever the wind takes us. High, low. Near, far. East, west. North, south. We take to the breeze, we go as we please,” he wrote. “This time, the breeze hit Charlotte like a storm. From border towns to the Queen City, our agents go where the mission calls.”

Martha White, who oversees her late grandfather’s estate, took issue with the government’s appropriation of E.B. White’s work. “He believed in the rule of law and due process,” Martha White said about her grandfather in a statement to CNN. “[He] certainly didn’t believe in masked men, in unmarked cars, raiding people’s homes and workplaces without IDs or summons,” she added. “He didn’t condone fearmongering.”

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