Behind The Lens: ICE detention, court access and federal intervention in Louisiana (Audio)
Reporter Delaney Nolan and editor Katy Reckdahl examine the surge in ICE activity across Louisiana.
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ICE enforcement
Immigration enforcement in New Orleans
Baton Rouge Immigration Court opens to public— and denies it was ever closed
As witnesses from Baton Rouge join a federal lawsuit, a Louisiana immigration judge instructs her staff to allow the public to observe court hearings. Denials were never court policy, she asserts.
New immigration rules require almost-unattainable evidence for many abuse survivors
Advocates say stricter immigration documentation requirements ignore the realities of abuse, prompting concerns that victims will be denied protection.
“Stuck in purgatory”: ICE detention times in Louisiana stretch on for years
The number of people in ICE detention at least a year has spiked five-fold, leading to an unprecedented surge in petitions that ask federal judges to intervene.
‘Nobody has been as bad as this’
The Baton Rouge Immigration Court has illegally barred all members of the public from individual hearings, a restriction unseen anywhere else in the nation, according to an administrative complaint filed Monday with the DOJ
ICE rushes to deport Palestinian grandfather, despite judge’s order to free him
A federal judge in Baton Rouge rebuked the government’s unlawful detention of the infirm 77-year-old. Then ICE seized him again.
U.S. citizen stopped in Lafayette, shackled, and detained in Louisiana ICE facility
The U.S.-born woman presented ICE and Lafayette sheriff’s deputies with her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE detained her anyway.
After Texas anti-ICE terror conviction, Louisiana can’t afford to stay silent
For federal officials, who have described people killed by ICE as “domestic terrorists,” the recent convictions in Louisiana’s neighboring state are a success — and a model to follow to stifle future opposition to ICE.
ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many.
Though federal policy discourages the detention of pregnant women and other at-risk people, Homeland Security numbers show that many have been caught up in the immigration enforcement surge over the past year.
Louisiana crawfish industry struggles with limited foreign workers, ag commissioner says
Gov. Landry says getting more visas is the state congressional delegation’s “lane to drive.”
