+3 Crime/Police DHS employee killed in Georgia attack grew up in Louisiana, was an Ĵý grad and state worker By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Apr 16, 2026 Lauren Bullis, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee killed this week in Georgia, was from Zachary, attended Ĵý and worked for years in Louisiana state government.
State Politics In Louisiana court, new details emerge about ‘third country’ deportations to African nations By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Updated Mar 26, 2026 A federal judge in Baton Rouge on Wednesday questioned whether federal agents violated an Ethiopian man’s due process rights when they tried to deport him to the African nation of Eswatini in early March, after the judge had previously ordered him freed from immigration detention at the State Penitentiary at Angola.
State Politics Woman can continue green card process while in Louisiana ICE custody, new settlement says By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Mar 9, 2026 Federal officials have agreed under a court settlement to transport a woman in Louisiana immigration detention to a fingerprinting appointment necessary to complete her application for permanent U.S. residency, her attorneys said Monday.
+4 News Once compared to a Confederate general, Greg Bovino faced discrimination lawsuit in New Orleans By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Updated Feb 2, 2026 Federal court filings from the case shed new light on a little-known period of Bovino's career.
+21 Crime/Police Oystermen grieve Honduran deckhand who drowned fleeing feds during Louisiana immigration sweeps BY JOHN SIMERMAN and SOPHIE KASAKOVE | Staff writers Jan 15, 2026 6 min to read A week before Christmas, a white minivan pulled up to the docks in Hopedale, and four U.S. Coast Guard agents jumped out in black vests.
+2 News Lafayette residents protest ICE outside sheriff’s office: ‘It’s not the country I was raised to believe in’ By STEPHEN MARCANTEL | Staff writer Jan 11, 2026 Lafayette residents gathered at the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office downtown Saturday to protest the killing of a Minnesota woman at the han…
+6 State Politics Who has Border Patrol detained in Louisiana? Just 10% have criminal records, officials say By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Dec 14, 2025 7 min to read Like their predecessors in Chicago and North Carolina, the federal government’s south Louisiana immigration sweeps set out to arrest violent criminals. Since the operation started, officials have touted arrests of “murderers, rapists and pedophiles.”
+3 News New Orleans Catholics afraid during immigration sweeps can miss Mass: 'Real fear and anxiety' By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Updated Dec 9, 2025 The Archdiocese of New Orleans is allowing Catholics who are fearful of leaving their homes to miss Mass while U.S. Border Patrol agents fan out across the city in the second week of an immigration enforcement operation.
+3 Crime/Police What happens to people detained by Border Patrol in New Orleans sweeps? Here's what to know. By JAMES FINN | Staff writer Dec 5, 2025 U.S. Border Patrol agents swept through the New Orleans region this week, detaining dozens of people in operations at Home Depot parking lots, construction sites and car washes.
NO.bpannounce.120425_6427.JPG PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER Dec 3, 2025 A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in St. Rose, Louisiana on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, the day the the U.S. Border Patrol be…