A new state law against interfering with immigration officers is so broadly written that it violates the First Amendment by limiting free speech, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana argues in a new lawsuit.

Filed as immigration officers descend on southeast Louisiana for on operation dubbed “Catahoula Crunch,” the lawsuit, now pending in federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, targets Act 399. That law, by state Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, makes it a crime to “knowingly commit any act intended to hinder, delay, prevent, or otherwise interfere with or thwart federal immigration enforcement effort.” It also takes aim at Attorney General Liz Murrill, who has publicized the law ahead of the Border Patrol’s arrival in New Orleans.

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