NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into southeast Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation.
The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide—from Chicago to Los Angeles to Charlotte, North Carolina—as the Trump administration moves aggressively to fulfill the president’s campaign promise of mass deportations.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves told WAPT this morning that he “supports the president’s efforts in trying to get law and order in our state and in our country.”
“We support law and order in the State of Mississippi, and if you are in our state legally, then you have nothing to worry about. If you are in our country legally, then you have nothing to worry about,” Reeves said…