Jeff Landry directs Louisiana to collect, publish data on immigrants

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Just over a week after he was sworn in as governor, Jeff Landry directed state agencies to collect and publish data on immigrants living in Louisiana, a move that could increase the state’s chances of success with litigation over the federal government’s immigration policies.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Landry said the executive order will help calculate immigration's costs to the state so that Louisiana can send a bill to President Joe Biden.

"We just put out an executive order now that we have gained full control of the governorship here in Louisiana, so that we can calculate the cost of a (border) policy by Joe Biden and them, on state taxpayers," Landry told host Neil Cavuto, adding that the state plans to tally, among other things, the costs of imprisoning immigrants who commit crimes.

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The seven-page order rails against Biden’s immigration policies and paints the state’s “illegal aliens” as a major economic burden and safety risk.

The order’s definition of “illegal aliens” includes people authorized to be in the country, such as those with “temporary protected status,” “parole” or “deferred action.”

The order mandates that all state agencies come up with a plan to analyze and report to the governor public expenses that directly or indirectly benefit immigrants within four months. It also directs the state police to work with local law enforcement agencies to collect data about all immigrants charged with crimes in Louisiana. Within the next six months, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections must find a way to regularly publish that data.

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