Local law enforcement agents could face jail or prison time and heavy fines for failing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a bill moving toward passage in the Louisiana State Legislature.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be released, denying a government request for a delay.

The demonstration condemned Trump's border crackdown policies that have led to the detention of students, activists and people without documents in Louisiana.

The bills, proposed during President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants nationwide, would force public institutions to track the immigration status of people using their services.

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.

Emails shared with The Associated Press say federal immigration authorities denied Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a temporary release from detention to attend the birth of his first child.

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Fourteen international students at Louisiana universities have had their permission to attend school in the United States revoked by the Trump administration.

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention in Louisiana, along with that of several other campus activists who have been shipped to detention centers in the state from far away, has put a spotlight on Louisiana’s role as a major hub for immigration detention.

The federal government has sufficient grounds to deport Mahmoud Khalil – the former Columbia University student-activist and green-card holder currently detained in Louisiana — an immigration judge found after a tense hearing at the LaSalle immigration court in Jena on Friday.