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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,” aiming to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation.

Agents are expected to arrive in New Orleans on Friday to begin staging equipment and vehicles before the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the people familiar with the operation. They are scheduled to return toward the end of the month, with the full sweep beginning in early December. The people familiar with the matter could not publicly discuss details of the operation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

New Orleans Police Department Supt. Anne Kirkpatrick said Tuesday (Nov. 18) she expects a briefing on the deployment soon. Kirkpatrick addressed the topic during an appearance on radio station WBOK.

“I’m having that briefing this week at my request,” Kirkpatrick said. “... I am going to collaborate.”

She said the deployment of National Guard troops, as suggested by President Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, or federal immigration authorities ordered into the city are developments beyond her control.

“I have no control, nor does anyone in this city have control, as to whether or not Border Patrol will be here,” Kirkpatrick said. “They’re coming, so I am going to be a partner.

“But I also want to emphasize something to our community: To be in our country undocumented is illegal. To be illegal is not criminal.”

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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, N.C. — as the Trump administration moves aggressively to fulfill the president’s campaign promise of mass deportations.

Landry, a close Trump ally, has enthusiastically backed the administration’s overtures for placing federal troops in his state.

Taber said local communities are ready to document federal agents’ actions.

“When Border Patrol comes here, we will be filming and exposing them,” she said.

Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander tapped to run the Louisiana sweep, has become the administration’s go-to architect for large-scale immigration crackdowns — and a magnet for criticism over the tactics used in them. His selection to oversee “Swamp Sweep” signals that the administration views Louisiana as a major enforcement priority for the Trump administration.

The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the operation.

“For the safety and security of law enforcement, we’re not going to telegraph potential operations,” spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.

Just outside New Orleans is the Jefferson Parish city of Kenner, which has a large Hispanic population.

“Nobody’s going on school campuses and plucking children out of school campuses,” Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said. “If we get a complaint of criminal activity, or any concerns on a school campus, we do go. But there’s a lot of fear-mongering on social media, a lot of misinformation. Shocker, with social media.”

In Chicago, Bovino drew a rare public rebuke from a federal judge who said he misled the court about the threats posed by protesters and deployed tear gas and pepper balls without justification during a chaotic confrontation downtown. His teams also oversaw aggressive arrest operations in Los Angeles and more recently in Charlotte, where Border Patrol officials have touted dozens of arrests across North Carolina this week after a surging immigration crackdown that has included federal agents scouring churches, grocery stores and apartment complexes.

Planning documents reviewed by the AP show Border Patrol teams preparing to fan out across neighborhoods and commercial hubs throughout southeast Louisiana, stretching from New Orleans through Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes and as far north as Baton Rouge, with additional activity planned in southeastern Mississippi.

They need to come to Lake Charles and empty out the mobile home park full of illegals dealing drugs I reported a while back. I reported the owner too. He lives in Moss Bluff far away from South LC where it doesn't affect him.