Hey everybody, it's Tim O'er from the Bullwark.

I was at an anti-ice protest in Kenner, a suburban neighborhood outside of New Orleans.

It has a big immigrant community, particularly immigrants from Honduras, but also other Central and South American countries.

And I met with a bunch of activists who had gathered in a parking lot where ICE officials had been staging their raids over the past few days.

And so I want to show you a couple of the conversations I've had from there and then a couple of

the videos that they provided me of what they've seen from the ice raids here in New Orleans.

But just in the biggest picture, I'm going to talk about like what my

takeaways are from what we've seen.

It parallels what we've seen in other cities, which is that this effort is a lot more

about PR.

It's about scaring people and intimidating people than it is about getting rid of criminals like Donald Trump has planned.

Just looking at the facts here.

The Associated Press reviewed the arrest they've had so far in the first couple days.

I've had 38 people arrested.

Only nine of them had criminal histories.

They got that information, even though

intelligence bulletin internal to ICE and CPB warned that they should not be distributed to the media.

Oops, oh well, local officials here are not being coordinated with or not being worked with.

One example, City Council President J.P. Murrell said there's literally no information

being given to the city of New Orleans whatsoever.

If their goal was for them to come here and augment existing law enforcement to

pursue violent criminals or people's criminal histories, why wouldn't you be more

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