Several people arrested in New Orleans amid ICE ‘siege’: ‘It’s racial profiling’

Communities remain terrified as Trump administration's crackdown on another Democratic-led city enters day two

Dozens of people have been detained across the New Orleans area as the Trump administration's latest sweeping federal immigration crackdown in a Democratic-led city entered its second day.

The city's immigrant communities remain terrified and traumatized, advocates said, with many in hiding as people have been arrested in public spaces including parking lots outside Home Depots and Lowe's hardware stores, at bus stops, shopping malls and in residential areas around the city.