ICE arrests 84 people at Louisiana racetrack

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 84 radical unlawfully successful the state during a raid astatine a southwest Louisiana racetrack, the bureau announced

NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 84 radical unlawfully successful the state during a raid astatine a southwest Louisiana racetrack, the bureau announced Tuesday.

ICE said it raided the Delta Downs Racetrack, Hotel and Casino successful Calcasieu Parish connected Monday alongside different authorities and national agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Border Patrol. The raid occurred contempt a caller Trump medication directive for migration officers to pause arrests astatine farms, restaurants and hotels owed to concerns implicit the economical interaction of assertive enforcement.

Stephen Miller, White House lawman main of unit and the main designer of Trump’s migration policies, has pushed ICE to purpose for astatine slightest 3,000 arrests a day, up from astir 650 a time during the archetypal 5 months of Trump’s 2nd term.

ICE said authorities had “received intelligence” that businesses operating astatine the racetrack's stables employed “unauthorized workers” who were past targeted successful the raid.

Of the dozens of workers detained during the raid, “at slightest two” had anterior transgression records, according to the agency.

“These enforcement operations purpose to disrupt amerciable employment networks that endanger the integrity of our labour systems, enactment American jobs astatine hazard and make pathways for exploitation wrong captious sectors of our economy,” said Steven Stavinoha, U.S. Customs and Border Protection manager of tract operations successful New Orleans, successful a written statement.

“Our Company complies afloat with national labour laws, and to our knowledge, nary Delta Downs squad members were progressive successful this matter,” said David Strow, a spokesperson for Boyd Gaming Corporation which owns the racetrack, successful an emailed statement. “We volition cooperate with instrumentality enforcement arsenic requested.”

In the past fewer weeks, ICE has engaged successful different large-scale raids crossed Louisiana. On May 27, the bureau raided a federally funded flood-reduction task successful New Orleans and reported arresting 15 Central American workers. And the bureau said it arrested 10 Chinese nationals moving astatine massage parlors successful Baton Rouge during a June 11 raid.

Rachel Taber, an organizer with the Louisiana-based migrant rights radical Unión Migrante, criticized the raids.

“Our system runs connected immigrants,” Taber said. “And erstwhile we fto ourselves beryllium divided by radical hatred, our system for everyone suffers.”

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