Protesters emphasized that the presence of federal officers on city streets was instilling widespread fear, including among U.S. citizens and lawful residents.

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly deploying 250 Border Patrol agents to the New Orleans area, echoing recent operations in Chicago and North Carolina.

Federal agents are set to conduct a two-month immigration crackdown starting Dec. 1. The operation aims to arrest around 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and Mississippi.

Ten people were arrested earlier this month for alleged immigration violations during a joint state and federal patrol of oyster beds in St. Bernard and Terrebonne parishes.

The Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center appears to have been operating well over its contracted capacity since April.

A lawsuit filed Monday says the inhumane conditions of the newly opened “Louisiana Lockup” violate Double Jeopardy protections and that detainees should be released if the government fails to deport them after six months.

On 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.

“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.

Two Louisiana mothers who were deported to Honduras along with their citizen children in April have now sued the Trump administration, arguing that their removals lacked due process in violation of federal law.

It was a routine stop — the Kenner Police officers who pulled him over said Sanchez had run a red light — but it ended with Sanchez in a federal immigration detention center.