Federal agents equipped with megaphones descended on a Metairie apartment complex Thursday and urged people to come out for questioning, spurring immigration advocates to advise residents that agents need a warrant signed by a judge to enter someone’s home.

That guidance, delivered by New Orleans-area advocacy group Union Migrante and other advocates on social media, came as residents gird for U.S. Border Patrol agents to stage a sweeping immigration operation in the coming weeks across Southeast Louisiana.

"You don't have the duty to go out unless they have a warrant, and they are trying to knock at your location with a legal warrant signed by a judge," said Cynthia Ceballos, a Metairie-based immigration attorney, in a video posted Thursday by Union Migrante.

The apartment complex op

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