by Amy Goodman | Dec 6, 2025 | ICE, ICE Raids, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Interview, Kristi Noem, Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil, Mass Incarceration, Migrant Jails, New Orleans, Policing, Prisons, Protests, Racial Profiling, Raids, Rümeysa Öztürk, Supreme Court
A major immigration crackdown is underway in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana, dubbed “Operation Catahoula Crunch” by the Trump administration. According to planning documents, 250 federal agents will aim to make 5,000 arrests over two months. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the operation will target “the worst of the worst,” though the number of arrests being…
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by Bobbi-Jeanne Misick | Dec 5, 2025 | Border Patrol, ICE, immigration, Louisiana, New Orleans, News, Trump Administration
Hundreds of U.S. Border Patrol agents are reportedly set to begin a major immigration crackdown across much of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi this week as part of what has been dubbed operation “Swamp Sweep.” The planned action follows similar surges in Chicago (operation “Midway Blitz”) and Charlotte, North Carolina (operation “Charlotte’s Web”), where agents have been accused…
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