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Gerald Herbert/AP/APOn this week's episode, we speak with WRKF reporter and Report for America fellow Alex Cox about a new immigration detention center at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary — better known as Angola — and how it fits into national trends. -
Alex Cox/WRKF“Camp 57” is the latest attempt to repurpose U.S. prison facilities to accommodate mass arrests by ICE amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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A Marine Corps veteran's wife has been released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention following advocacy from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who backs President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown. -
A judge has ordered the release of two Iranian-born LSU students from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, where they have been detained since late June. -
Four law enforcement officials and a businessman in Central Louisiana are accused of falsifying crime reports to help foreign nationals remain in the United States. -
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts. -
Nine Southern University students who had their visas revoked by the Trump administration earlier this year have since had them reinstated, according to the university. -
Up to 200 Marines are scheduled to deploy to Louisiana to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at its facilities in the state. -
Washington Post reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske traveled to Winnfield in northwest Louisiana to hear how locals feel about the detention center in their town. -
Two Iranian-born LSU students were arrested this week by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at their off-campus apartment in Baton Rouge, the university has confirmed.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans. -
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention.
