Residents in a Washington DC neighbourhood with one of the city's largest Latino populations say they have seen a surge in immigration raids since the Trump administration launched its crime crackdown.

People are walking around scared, one resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, said. I've never seen the streets so empty.

Videos posted on social media in the last week show arrests and raids - along with protests by locals - in the Columbia Heights area.

More than 1,000 arrests have been made across the US capital since the crackdown started on 11 August - nearly half were of suspected illegal immigrants, according to the White House.

BBC Verify has reviewed more than a dozen videos filmed in Columbia Heights and spoken to people who live there to assess the impact on the neighbourhood.

Car stopped and windows smashed

One video of two men being seized by law enforcement officers was posted on Instagram by a local journalist on Thursday morning.

In the footage, a number on a distinctive building can be seen. We used this to pinpoint the location to a road in Columbia Heights - about two miles north of the White House - and headed there to find out more about what happened.

When we arrived, we saw the car being towed away by a man who gave us a number for someone who he said knew the arrested men.

We contacted the person and he texted back to say the men were from Guatemala, in the US illegally, and one had a wife and son. He called them good kids and claimed they do not have a bad record in anything.

Homes targeted in immigration raids

She told us her uncle's house across the street was targeted by federal agents last week.

We asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for more details. A spokesperson confirmed that ICE agents had arrested one of the individuals in the car, identified as Erickson Sebastian Lopez-Castanon. "additional_data": { "total_arrests": 1000, "neighborhood": "Columbia Heights" }