New Orleans immigration crackdown begins

The operation is targeting people accused of violent crimes, officials say.

- BY JACK BROOK AND SARA CLINE

Federal agents began hitting the streets of New Orleans on Wednesday in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown across the U.S., looking to round up immigrants accused of violent crimes, a Homeland Security official said.

Masked agents patrolled a heavily Latino suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a resident told the Associated Press he watched agents arresting men outside a home improvement store in New Orleans — a familiar scene that has played out in several major cities in recent months.

Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who led enforcement operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and Charlotte, N.C., met up Wednesday with agents assembling in a Home Depot parking lot.