Nicholas Pastore, prosecutors said, knew the workers were undocumented and he helped to keep them away from ICE agents.

ICE agents arrested 13 people in a joint operation with the U.S. Forest Service and the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office.

Going to Wilson Creek in the Pisgah National Forest is something of a Sunday routine for many Latino families in this corner of the Appalachian Mountains. On a recent Sunday, Argenis Eduardo Torres ...