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Federal Officers Are Leaving Louisiana Immigration Crackdown for Minneapolis, Documents Show

More than 2,000 federal officers are involved in a nationwide enforcement surge aiming for thousands of arrests amid protests and community concerns, DHS said.

  • Federal immigration officers are departing a Louisiana crackdown dubbed 'Catahoula Crunch' and heading to Minneapolis for an extensive operation purportedly related to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
  • The Trump administration has surged over 2,000 officers to Minnesota in what the Department of Homeland Security calls the largest immigration enforcement operation ever, leading to protests after an ICE officer fatally shot a woman.
  • While Louisiana's Republican governor welcomed the crackdown targeting largely non-criminal Hispanic immigrants, New Orleans' Democratic leaders criticized the operation's scale and tactics, including videos showing aggressive arrests of residents and US citizens.
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The federal immigration authorities are retreating from an offensive in Louisiana and are heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt shift from an operation that provoked protests around New Orleans and was aimed at making thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The change seemed to indicate the gradual reduction of deployment in Louisiana, known as "Catahoula Crunch", which began in December with the arrival of m…

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Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.

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KARE broke the news in Minneapolis, United States on Friday, January 9, 2026.
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