Immigrant rights groups and eyewitnesses said that federal agents made immigration arrests Wednesday at a handful of large home-building stores in the New Orleans region, as the Trump administration launches a sweeping enforcement operation across south Louisiana.

According to social media posts, New Orleans-based advocacy group, Union Migrante, said federal agents had performed arrests at four large homebuilding stores: Lowe’s locations on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans and Veterans Boulevard in Metairie, and Home Depot locations in LaPlace and Gretna.

Spokespeople for Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to requests to confirm that people were detained.

In social media posts, Union Migrante said it had verified reports of the a

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