- ICE plans ‘Swamp Sweep’ raids concentrating on 5,000 migrants in Louisiana and Mississippi.
- Faculties fear about immigration enforcement at campuses regardless of DHS denials.
- Officers admit they have to enable ICE entry if brokers have correct paperwork.
Donald Trump’s merciless campaign continues as federal brokers put together to descend upon Louisiana and components of Mississippi to arrest, harass, accost, and deport undocumented migrants. As we’ve already seen, ICE and U.S. Border Patrol declare to solely be concentrating on of us from different international locations, nevertheless, they don’t seem to be above violating the civil rights of Americans of their zeal to execute this punitive MAGA coverage.

In line with Newsweek, 250 Border Patrol is ready to launch a “Swamp Sweep” on Monday that can goal 5,000 folks over the course of months. This newest model of cheekily-named state-sanctioned terrorism comes on the heels of “Operation Charlotte’s Net” which noticed North Carolina migrants focused for deportation. Nonetheless, the looming efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi are stated to characterize a heightened degree of exercise and maybe depth within the assault on immigration.
ABC Information quotes a gleeful Greg Bovino, commander-at-large of U.S. Customs and Border Safety, in a social media put up concerning the upcoming raids within the southern gulf.
“Maintain on to your hats women and gents, immigration enforcement goes subsequent degree,” he stated.
“Maintain on to your hats, women and gentleman.”? You hear this idiot? He talks about deporting folks like he’s welcoming Jay Z and Beyoncé to an exhilarating F1 race. That is all sport for them. They might give a rattling concerning the moms, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins, and family members who’ve suffered unimaginable trauma by the hands of masked males who wantonly apprehend folks based mostly strictly on racist stereotypes.

NOLA is reporting that one of many potential developments in immigration policing could also be a concentrate on arrests at faculties. Mother and father within the New Orleans and Jefferson Parish space of the state are involved. DHS says they’re “not conducting enforcement operations at, or ‘raiding,’ faculties,” however who of their proper thoughts believes that? The response to the risk is disparate amongst faculties. CEO of InspireNOLA Jamar McKneely says that he won’t enable ICE or Border Patrol to unlawfully enter any of the seven constitution faculties he oversees. Nonetheless, a Jefferson Parish Faculty Board member, Derrick Shepherd, spoke bluntly about faculties’ duty to “observe the regulation” and never make false assurances to scared dad and mom.
“We are able to’t inform dad and mom that if ICE brokers come to the faculties with correct paperwork that we’re not going to allow them to in,” he stated, “as a result of we’ll allow them to in.”
What a sick timeline we’re residing in.