Multicultural New Orleans awaits arrival of immigration crackdown

By JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE, Associated Press/Report for America
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans, the laid-back city known as the Big Easy and the birthplace of jazz, where lavish parades, bead-throwing debauchery and Creole cuisine attract tourists from around the globe, is about to become the next staging ground for the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.
Operation “Swamp Sweep,” an expansive, monthslong immigration crackdown, is expected to launch in s