NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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.

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard Law School this week after he pleaded guilty to discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the day before Yom Kippur,

As reports of federal immigration enforcement activity ripple across Minnesota, Twin Cities school districts are issuing unusually direct, and in some cases defiant, messages to families. Some are pledging to deny federal immigration agents access to school buildings;

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Thursday did not yet grant a motion to dismiss that class action lawsuit, brought forth this week by the plaintiffs themselves.

La. lawmakers passed a new law earlier this year to prohibit hindering or preventing federal immigration enforcement efforts.

It is unclear how long the effort will last in Louisiana, where the Republican governor has welcomed the agents with open arms even as immigrant communities fear what might come.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests with a focus on violent offenders, a target that some city leaders say is not realistic.

How long will Border Patrol be here? How many arrests were made? Here’s what Gregory Bovino said on the first day of “Catahoula Crunch,” part of a nationwide immigration crackdown supported by the governor and criticized by some top New Orleans leaders.

A woman was forcefully pulled out of her car and handcuffed by federal immigration agents as she screamed for help and insisted she was a U.S. citizen on Wednesday morning in Key Largo.

The Department of Homeland Security said the operation in New Orleans will target "criminal illegal aliens."