The Trump administration's planned immigration enforcement crackdown in New Orleans could start as early as Dec. 1, Department of Homeland Security sources told CBS News on Tuesday.

The administration is planning to send roughly 200 federal Border Patrol agents to New Orleans, the next target of its far-reaching, nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News and reported on last week.

The plans would make the Big Easy the latest Democratic-led city to be in the crosshairs of President Trump's mass deportation campaign, spearheaded in part by green-uniformed Border Patrol agents who have been directed to enforce that crackdown far away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

This past week, Border Patrol agents led by contro

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