Louisiana
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Louisiana (LA) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Louisiana counts here.
This is not the same set as Louisiana's jurisdiction page, which records the 16 entries where Louisiana's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
8 entries · 7 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Richwood city 2 entries
ICE deported Army veteran Godfrey Wade to Jamaica while his removal-order appeal was still pending
On February 5, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Godfrey Wade, a 65-year-old honorably discharged Army veteran and lawful permanent resident of the United States since 1975, to Jamaica while his appeal of a 2014 in-absentia removal order remained pending before the Board of Immigration Appeals. ICE detained Wade after a September 13, 2025 traffic stop in Conyers, Georgia, under a removal order he did not learn existed until his green-card renewal was denied in December 2024 — notices of the 2014 hearing and order had been mailed to an address that returned them undeliverable. An immigration judge denied Wade's motion to reopen the case in under two minutes without addressing the returned-notice evidence, and DHS has defended the removal, calling Wade "a criminal illegal alien" who "received full due process."
ICE and LaSalle Corrections denied pregnant detainee prenatal care at Louisiana facility; she delivered a stillborn baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its contractor, LaSalle Corrections, denied Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus, a pregnant Guatemalan detainee, adequate prenatal care during her detention at Richwood Correctional Center in Richwood, Louisiana, and she delivered a stillborn baby on April 29, 2025, after days of unaddressed complaints that she had stopped feeling fetal movement. Federal records later obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request showed no completed ultrasound or OB-GYN visit, contradicting a later DHS public denial that she lacked care.
Alexandria city 1 entry
ICE contracted private prison firm LaSalle Corrections to build 528-bed Louisiana family/child holding facility, bypassing ORR custody
In late June 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a contract to build a 528-bed holding facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children next to Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana. The facility, intended as a "staging area" for people awaiting deportation, will be operated by the LaSalle Family Foundation, a nonprofit arm of private prison contractor LaSalle Corrections, bypassing the Office of Refugee Resettlement's statutory custody role over unaccompanied children.
Bossier City city 1 entry
ICE re-detained and moved to deport Palestinian grandfather in defiance of federal release order
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement re-arrested Akram Mahmoud Omar, a 77-year-old Louisiana resident, at his home on June 8, 2026, and moved to place him on a deportation flight, ten days after a federal judge had ordered his release and found his prior detention unconstitutional. Omar's attorney filed an emergency motion the same day, and the judge again ordered ICE to release him, which it did that evening.
DeSoto Parish county 1 entry
U.S. District Court dismissed DeSoto Parish's 1967 school desegregation order at DOJ, Louisiana AG's request, without a desegregation finding
On January 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. granted a joint motion by the U.S. Department of Justice and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office to dismiss a 1967 federal desegregation order governing the roughly 5,000-student DeSoto Parish School Board in northwest Louisiana. It was the second Louisiana desegregation decree the Trump administration and Murrill's office have had dismissed through "joint stipulated dismissals" that require no finding that a district actually ended segregation, following an earlier dismissal of a 1966 Plaquemines Parish order. Murrill said the ruling gives DeSoto Parish "its school system back"; no independent finding that segregation had been eliminated in the district was reported.
Fort Polk facility 1 entry
ICE detains Army sergeant's newlywed wife inside Fort Polk during benefits registration
On April 2, 2026, federal immigration agents detained Annie Ramos, the 22-year-old newlywed wife of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank, inside Fort Polk, Louisiana, where the couple had gone to register her for a military ID and spouse benefits. Ramos, born in Honduras and brought to the U.S. before age 2, was held on a final removal order issued in absentia in 2005, when she was a toddler, despite a DACA application pending since 2020. After five days in detention she was released April 7 on an order of supervision with a GPS monitor, with removal proceedings continuing.
Jefferson Parish county 1 entry
Jefferson Parish, La. deputy fired after admitting 3,200+ unauthorized Flock searches on ex-fiancee
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputy Nathan Rome was fired Aug. 18, 2026 after admitting, following a reporter inquiry and after waiving his rights to investigators, that he had used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to search his former fiancee's vehicle more than 3,200 times over several years for reasons unrelated to any official duty. Sheriff Joseph Lopinto confirmed the admission and the firing on the record.
New Orleans city 1 entry
Louisiana judge closed courtroom for AG Murrill's grand jury indictment; deputies handcuffed objecting reporter and attorney
On July 2, 2026, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Leon Roche closed his courtroom to press and public for the grand jury's return of an indictment against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, without stating a reason. When WWL-TV reporter Danny Monteverde and First Amendment attorney Elana Beiser objected to the closure, Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office deputies handcuffed both of them for roughly 20 minutes.