ICE raids in New Orleans, photo courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. immigration authorities have launched a major enforcement operation in New Orleans, known as “Catahoula Crunch,” after the Department of Homeland Security said “criminal illegal aliens are roaming free” because local sanctuary policies prevent the honoring of ICE detainer requests. DHS is deploying roughly 250 Border Patrol agents with an internal goal of arresting about 5,000 people across Louisiana and Mississippi. The operation specifically targets offenders who were released from local custody rather than transferred to federal agents due to New Orleans’ restrictions on cooperation with immigration enforcement. The Orleans Parish jail has long operated under a consent-decree policy that barred jailers from honoring ICE detainer requests in most cases, meaning individuals…
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