NEW ORLEANS —

New Orleans Mayor-elect Helena Moreno has issued resources available to the community ahead of the expected arrival of Border Patrol.

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and in Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. Advertisement

The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide — from Chicago to Los Angeles to Charlotte, North Carolina — as the Trump administration moves aggressively to fulfill the president’s

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