As President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign makes detention lengthier and more common, immigrants are turning to federal courts.

Thousands of pounds of tear gas and pepper balls are reportedly being stored at a naval base five miles south of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police and several elected officials say they have received no details about upcoming federal immigration enforcement efforts, even as the head of Louisiana State Police confirmed his agency will assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol.

After completing immigration enforcement raids in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina for the past two weeks, the U.S. Department of

About 100 demonstrators, including Mayor Karen Bass, walked from La Placita to the Metropolitan Water District.

GRETNA, La. — Five people were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Wednesday morning in Gretna, according to the Gretna Police Department. Authorities said the individuals were detained at Home Depot on the Westbank. They reported one person ran from agents and the police department assisted.

A judge had blocked the immigrant’s removal to Mexico because she was at risk of being tortured or killed there.

With “Operation Swamp Sweep” days away in Louisiana, a new law could change the way some police and sheriff’s offices interact with federal immigration enforcers. Act 399 went into effect Aug. 1. It, among other changes, directs anyone considered a ...