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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN breaking news.

And we're following the breaking news. President Trump's immigration crackdown is intensifying right now across the United States.

Right now, federal authorities are launching an operation in New Orleans aimed at arresting thousands of the city's undocumented migrants. This latest action comes amid an

increasing push by the White House to further tighten immigration after an Afghan National

allegedly shot two U.S. National Guard members. Here's what Homeland Security told CNN about the

operation. We're first and foremost really focusing on those worst of the worst criminals.

Those criminals who have previously been locked up by local authorities, but then because New

Orleans functions as a sanctuary city, those individuals were not released to ice.

They were instead released back onto New Orleans streets.

So we're talking about child pedophiles who are on our list of targets,

burglars, gang members, rapists.

Those individuals we are highly targeting.

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