"She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her. The 38-year-old Honduran house painter was swept up in an immigration crackdown that has largely targeted Kenner, a New Orleans suburb with a large Hispanic population, where some parents at risk of deportation had rushed to arrange emergency custody plans for their children in case they were arrested."
"The crackdown dubbed Operation Catahoula Crunch has a goal of 5,000 arrests. DHS has said it is targeting violent offenders but has released few details on who it is arresting. Records reviewed by AP found that the majority of those detained in the first two days of the effort had no criminal histories. And most in US immigration detention nationwide are immigrants with no criminal record, according to government data."
Federal agents carried out a crackdown across southeast Louisiana that produced more than 250 arrests in December. Operation Catahoula Crunch aims for 5,000 arrests. DHS says the operation targets violent offenders, but records show the majority detained in the first days had no criminal histories, and government data indicate most people in immigration detention nationwide have no criminal record. Many arrested parents were caretakers and breadwinners, forcing US-citizen children to assume caregiving, access bank accounts and medical records, and pay bills. Arrests have also occurred in Los Angeles, Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina, and some suburbs with large Hispanic populations were targeted.
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