Trump administration reportedly deploying 250 federal border agents to Louisiana and Mississippi in massive immigration crackdown targeting nearly 5,000 people.

The Trump administration's planned immigration enforcement crackdown in New Orleans could start as early as Dec. 1, Department of Homeland Security sources told CBS News.

Local officials and community leaders had urged residents to stay safe as they braced for increased immigration enforcement actions.

Pope Leo XIV backed U.S. Catholic bishops in condemning the Trump administration's immigration sweeps, urging Americans to treat migrants with dignity.

New York City's chief fiscal officer, Brad Lander, has decided to go to trial on a misdemeanor obstruction charge

After immigration officials arrested more than 130 people, some churches report being half empty, an after-school program canceled activities and one U.S. citizen said he started carrying his passport.

"The fact that a paper tells me you're now a citizen of this country doesn't take away from the fact that I look the way I look," Cristina Rojas told CBS News.

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 into Mississippi,

North Carolina’s leaders are slamming President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown for “stoking fear,” fueling division and having a chilling effect on residents in the state’s largest city.

Since Saturday, at least two people have been detained in a Charlotte plaza, where resident David Rebolloso runs his businesses, a laundromat, he told ABC News. Rebolloso said that the plaza, which caters predominantly to the Hispanic community, is usually bustling. Today, only two of the 18 businesses are open.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a Trump administration legal challenge to New York policies that block immigration officials from arresting people at state courthouses, saying the federal government can’t force states to cooperate with those enforcement efforts.