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The Border Patrol operates in ����h from digs on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans.��Gregory Bovino, the chief of the Border Patrol's El Centro Sector and the guy President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have been sending into metro areas to get rid of the "worst of the worst, made a point to exit with a gang of Border Patrol officers as a show of force on the busy commercial street.��

ICE operates in several ����h locations. There are “processing centers” in Basile and Jena, and Angola’s former Camp J is now Camp 57, a holding place for those detained based on assumed or real immigration issues. Until last month, ICE operated from the Central Business District in New Orleans. Just weeks ago, that office moved from the bustling CBD to the more serene St. Rose in St. Charles Parish. The Border Patrol is still in New Orleans, with offices on Canal Street, the Lakefront Airport along Lake Pontchartrain and at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner.

Kenner was one of several places where the Border Patrol dudes executed part of their "Catahoula Crunch" netting strategy Wednesday.

Columnist Will Sutton was a guest on the “Roland Martin Unfiltered” digital national news show Wednesday, December 3. He talked about the feds’ Catahoula Crunch immigration effort in the New Orleans area.

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If you saw any of the video of the detention of a young man outside of a Burlington store in a Kenner strip mall, you likely heard jet noise as flights flew above. The place is close to the airport. That poor soul had a photo with handcuffs behind his back on the front page of this newspaper and at the top of broadcast and television newscasts across the country. We don’t know his name. We don’t know why he was detained. We don’t know whether he’s a citizen. We don’t know whether he was shopping, working or getting a bite to eat.

I doubt the Border Patrol knew much about him. If they did, and if he’s one or the “worst,” I’m sure we’d know by now.

What I know is that after detaining dozens of people in Kenner, at a home in Gretna, at a Home Depot in LaPlace and at a Lowe's in New Orleans, ����only a handful might be considered some of the "worst of the worst," including a man supposedly convicted of sexual crimes and sentenced to 40 years in prison. They boasted that they had rounded up criminals "with rap sheets that include murder, kidnapping, child abuse and robbery."

But where's the beef, folks? You round up dozens, and that's all you can say?

If this crunch, sweep or roundup is really about going after noncitizen bad guys and gals, why aren’t they sharing with us the fresh news about the big catches they’ve made? Why? Because these efforts are shallow and have not yielded the promised results.

Yet much of Louisiana is buying in. Not long ago, the Department of Homeland Security proudly announced that the feds had more than 1,000 with local law enforcement agencies to help ICE in 40 states. One of the most cooperative states? ����h. They’re in it for the money since the feds are paying.

Since Trump and Noem started this silly fishing for catfish with double-ring crab nets, they’ve mostly caught tadpoles. They've got people convicted of driving while intoxicated, marijuana possession and disturbing the peace. If they had award- and contest-winning catches, you’d better believe they’d be plastering them on social media.

Back in 2000, one of the most popular culture songs was by the Baha Men. You can play that song today and heads will bop, feet will tap and people who can’t sing will shout lyrics without a song sheet. People may not know, or may not remember, that the catchy song has its roots in a 1998 feminist anthem about bad actor men who catcall women, calling those dudes dogs.

The feds switched the name of this local immigration effort from “Swamp Sweep” to “Catahoula Crunch” with clear intent and purpose. The Greater New Orleans area has a number of bayous, but not many swamps. Someone in Washington, D.C., didn’t do their homework. But ����h does have a Catahoula Parish, a community named Catahoula in St. Martin Parish and our state dog is the . It's not the most family-friendly animal, but it’s good at herding cattle and sheep.

Who let the dogs out? Our feds. But as for their claims of major results? That dog won't hunt.��