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Donald Trump has launched another major immigration enforcement operation, this time targeting New Orleans, a city led by the Democratic Party and which has a sanctuary city policy.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday announced the deployment of law enforcement officers to the city.”DHS legal personnel have landed in The Big Easy,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Platform X, referring to New Orleans’ nickname.
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Noem said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were tasked with “removing the worst of the worst from New Orleans, Louisiana, after sanctuary politicians in the city ignored the rule of law.”
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The sanctuary city policy implemented by New Orleans local authorities limits local police cooperation with federal agents in immigration matters.The move has often been the target of criticism from the Trump administration, which sees the policy as weakening law enforcement.
The operation was announced just a day after Trump announced plans to send National Guard troops to the city, a policy that had previously been implemented in Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis.
“We’re going to New Orleans in the near future,” Trump said.”The governor asked us to come. He asked for help in New Orleans and we will arrive in a few weeks.”
New Orleans has a Democratic mayor, but the governor of the state of Louisiana is a Republican.
Trump emphasized that the deployment of troops was necessary to reduce crime rates while supporting the large operation to deal with illegal immigration that he had promised since his campaign.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the operation in New Orleans would target “criminal illegal immigrants” who were wanted for alleged crimes such as home invasion, armed robbery, vehicle theft and rape.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, we are restoring law and order for the American people,” he said in a statement.
But the effort has drawn criticism, especially regarding the government’s claim that most of the undocumented immigrants arrested are criminals.
Cato Institute research released last month showed only 5 percent of those detained by ICE since Oct. 1 had violent criminal records, while 73 percent had no criminal records at all.
DHS disputed those findings and asserted that 70 percent of ICE arrests included criminal illegal immigrants who had been charged or convicted of crimes in the United States.
The operation adds to a long list of major cities targeted by the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies, which continue to fuel debate over public safety, immigrant rights and the limits of the federal government’s authority over city governments.
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