BATON ROUGE – Over $1 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will now go towards renovating office space at the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters, to house the Homeland Security Investigations Task Force.
But members of the community, like Marcela Hernandez, say they are concerned about how this may affect the immigrant and refugee community.
“This adds another layer of distrust to the system, and this will only continue creating ways for our community not to be well represented because they are hiding,” Hernandez said…