WASHINGTON: Federal authorities began a law enforcement operation on Wednesday targeting people living in New Orleans illegally, the US Department of Homeland Security said as the Trump administration continues its city-to-city immigration crackdown.
The operation’s “targets include violent criminals who were released after arrest for home invasion, armed robbery, grand theft auto, and rape,” Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
The scope of the New Orleans operation was not clear although it had previously been expected to run through the end of the year with a slowdown around Christmas.
President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the National Guard would be deployed to the southern city in a couple of weeks.
New Orleans, with a population of around 384,000, would be the latest city with a Democratic mayor targeted in Trump’s mass deportation push.
Since the summer, federal immigration officials have surged resources to Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., sparking criticism over aggressive tactics and arrests of people who had not committed a crime.
The action in New Orleans follows an operation in Charlotte, North Carolina.
US immigration crackdown begins in New Orleans
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US immigration crackdown begins in New Orleans
- The scope of the New Orleans operation was not clear
- New Orleans Mwould be the latest city with a Democratic mayor targeted in Trump’s mass deportation push
UK court jails Christian camp leader for drugging, sexually abusing boys
- Ruben admitted offenses relating to ill-treatment of children and sexual abuse — as well as to drugging his wife, who was volunteering at the camp, in order to avoid detection
LONDON: A court in England on Friday jailed a man for more than 31 years for drugging and sexually abusing young boys at a Christian summer camp he led last summer.
Police say they are now talking to other groups he worked with in the past as part of an ongoing investigation.
Former vet Jon Ruben, 76, was leading the camp last July, said a statement from prosecutors released after Friday’s judgment.
He laced sweets with sedatives and tricked children at the camp into eating them by encouraging them to take part in a game.
“Later on, while the boys were heavily asleep, he went into their dormitory and chose individual boys to sexually abuse them,” said prosecutors.
Volunteers at the camp in Leicestershire, central England, raised the alarm after finding the children still nauseous, drowsy and disoriented the next day.
Eight boys aged between eight and 11 were taken to hospital and Ruben was arrested.
Investigators found syringes and sedatives at the camp location.
On his devices they found indecent images of children as well as evidence he had procured tranquilizer drugs and tried to join an online paedophile network.
Ruben admitted offenses relating to ill-treatment of children and sexual abuse — as well as to drugging his wife, who was volunteering at the camp, in order to avoid detection.
A court in Leicester sentenced him on Friday to a total of 31 years and 10 months behind bars under special provisions for defendants designated by prosecutors as particularly dangerous.
Leicestershire police said the investigation into Ruben was still “very much ongoing.”
Officers are contacting schools and youth organizations in central England with whom Ruben was involved with over the past two decades.
