Federal Border Patrol agents are set to begin operating in the New Orleans area under the Trump administration’s expanding immigration crackdown , according to people familiar with the plans and local law enforcement officials.

Details including the size of the Border Patrol deployment, where in the New Orleans area agents might operate and the timeline of their arrival is unclear, according to multiple people briefed on the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the operation has not been publicly announced.

The planned operation follows dispatches of Border Patrol agents this year to Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina — places where the border-focused agency have historically not operated.

Trump administration officials sent Border Patrol agents to those cities a

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