"Operation Catahoula Crunch is making New Orleans safer by finding and arresting illegal aliens who have been endangering this community," Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino posted on X shortly after his roving corps of immigration enforcers arrived in the city. In a similar PR offensive, the Department of Homeland Security recently launched the Worst of the Worst website, which features some of the arrests that the federal agents implementing the Trump White House's mass deportation policy have carried out across the country."
"A caravan of Louisiana state troopers escorted three rental cars full of federal agents, including Bovino himself, to an apartment complex in Kenner, Louisiana. A secondary caravan, made up mostly of journalists and protesters, followed close behind."
"Safe inside an SUV, surrounded by agents with weapons, Bovino texted away on his phone from the parking lot of an apartment complex. The messages, recorded by journalist Ford Fischer, offer some insight - both into Bovino's mind, and the state of the Louisiana operation. 'Kind of cool we are a massive wrecking crew. The idiots can't do anything to us....I can't understand why DHS is hiding us when we are handing them strategy on a silver platter,' Bovino wrote to a contact listed"
Federal immigration agents carried out Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans and Kenner to find and arrest undocumented migrants. The Department of Homeland Security promoted selected arrests on a 'Worst of the Worst' website while omitting the legal resolutions of many cases. Louisiana state troopers escorted federal agents to an apartment complex, blocked roads, and forced reporters and protesters out of vehicles. Journalists and local residents followed and protests grew as agents moved through the complex. Commander Gregory Bovino exchanged messages boasting of forceful tactics and criticized DHS for concealing the operation despite providing strategy.
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