Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown

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Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown

By JIM MUSTIAN and JACK BROOK
Updated 5:36 PM EST, December 7, 2025
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.

The intelligence gathering comes even as officials have released few details about the first arrests made last week as part of “Catahoula Crunch,” prompting calls for greater transparency from local officials who say they’ve been kept in the dark about virtually every aspect of the operation.

“Online opinions still remain mixed, with some supporting the operations while others are against them,” said a briefing circulated early Sunday to law enforcement. Earlier bulletins noted “a combination of groups urging the public to record ICE and Border Patrol” as well as “additional locations where agents can find immigrants.”

Immigration authorities have insisted the sweeps are targeted at “criminal illegal aliens.” But the law enforcement records detail criminal histories for less than a third of the 38 people arrested in the first two days of the operation.

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1. at least they waited until the end of hurricane season

these raids are irrational. what is wrong with anyone supporting this ??

the local (new Orléans) talk radio loves trump. callers assure me that only murderers and rapists are being deported. no push bac from the shock jocks.