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Tag: Immigration

‘They tricked me:’ Migrants feel deceived by ICE after being promised $1,000 to voluntarily depart 

Led to expect an “exit bonus,” migrants were left empty-handed in their home countries.
by Delaney Nolan December 18, 2025 Updated December 22, 2025

Usted puede hacer cumplir la ley de inmigración de maneras profesionales

La forma en que se aplica la ley es tan importante como la ley misma.
by Arthur Hunter Jr. December 17, 2025 Updated December 22, 2025

Why New Orleans Became Trump’s Newest Immigration Target

Recent legal changes, a Trump-friendly governor and a large immigration detention infrastructure could make the New Orleans crackdown easier for the administration.
by Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project December 12, 2025 Updated December 22, 2025
A low-angle view of a tall bronze monument featuring a worker holding a broom, with additional sculpted figures and architectural forms rising behind him, set against a bright sky with scattered clouds and surrounding trees.

New Orleans does not want or need a mass enforcement operation

New Orleans cherishes its immigrant community. We owe them safety, dignity, and the assurance that this city will stand with them. What is happening across the country cannot become our reality.
by Royce Duplessis December 5, 2025 Updated December 5, 2025

Detainees at privately owned immigration facility say sheriff’s office broke up protest with pepper spray, projectiles

Catahoula Parish Sheriff admits that he and his deputies were there, but denies intervening.
by Debbie Nathan May 27, 2020 Updated May 27, 2020

ICE detention is a danger to Louisiana communities

"Medical experts for the Department of Homeland Security have called the nationwide ICE system 'a frighteningly efficient mechanism for rapid spread of the virus to otherwise remote areas of the country where many detention centers are housed.'"
by Mark Dow April 9, 2020 Updated April 9, 2020

COVID-19: Asylum seekers must be released from detention

"Refugees have no business being behind bars in the first place, and their continued detention threatens not only their health – but the health and safety of the community at large."
by Bruce Hamilton March 25, 2020 Updated March 25, 2020

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