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 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.
In Louisiana, the operation is unfolding on the home turf of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, a close Trump ally who has moved to align state policy with the White House’s enforcement agenda. But, as seen in other blue cities situated in Republican-led states, increased federal enforcement presence could set up a collision with officials in liberal New Orleans who have long resisted federal sweeps.
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.
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.
Once “Swamp Sweep” begins, Louisiana will become a major testing ground for the administration’s expanding deportation strategy, and a focal point in the widening rift between federal authorities intent on carrying out large-scale arrests and city officials who have long resisted them.
Creating solutions to problems that don’t exist. Three more years of this shit??
5000 people, or immigrants. Whichever comes first!
Yep, that’s how they’ve been doing it in Memphis. Mainly arrests of poor people for non violent offenses, following unrelated pretextual stops. Then after a week or so, once they had settled in, and residents kept asking when they could expect it would be over, the governor admitted that it would be a permanent partnership.
I haven’t checked in a while, but last time I did they were a little over 1K arrests in under a month, and a woman had just been pulled out of her house naked and forced to stand outside in the cold with a bunch of armed men, after a federal task force raided the wrong address and refused to let her get dressed or even give her a coat of a blanket.
It turns out they were looking for a man she didn’t know who was already in jail and had been arrested earlier in the week.
Looks like city is actually in a back and forth lawsuit about the occupation now that the Governor has appealed: https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/18/tennessee-governor-to-appeal-ruling-against-guard-in-memphis/
God bless the U.S.A. Fuck the treasonous scum that profit from her destruction, and the boot licking turncoats who carry out the dirty work for them by just following orders.
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.
Of course, Trish. Obviously we can’t have residents knowing what areas of the war zone you’re coming to liberate, for the safety of the liberators. If children and the elderly end up having to breathe a little freedom gas, that’s just the cost of making their cities safe. They should say thank you.
Mardi Gras Day is February 17 so good on ya governor for intentionally sabotaging the biggest money maker of the year for your state.
The season itself starts January 6 so epic big brain move there.
Border agents checking the border with the Gulf of Mexico? I thought the idiot in chief renamed it because… Reasons?
