Mayor-elect of New Orleans
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Vocal critic of Catahoula Crunch and its community impact
In late 2025, President Donald Trump's second-term immigration agenda brought its mass-deportation push to New Orleans through Operation Catahoula Crunch (also known as 'Swamp Sweep'), a Border Patrol–led sweep targeting 5,000 arrests across southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Launched on December 3, 2025, the operation deployed roughly 250 federal agents into the New Orleans metro area, conducting raids at big-box stores, workplaces, and residential neighborhoods while conducting round-the-clock online surveillance of activists, protests, and community organizing. However, the operation fell dramatically short of its stated goals: by early January 2026, federal authorities had arrested only 560 people—just 11% of the target—before abruptly withdrawing agents to redeploy them to Minneapolis. Early arrest data reviewed by the Associated Press showed that fewer than 10% of initial detainees had criminal backgrounds, contradicting the federal narrative of a violent-offender crackdown.
Updated Feb 4
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