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'I'm gonna jump': Spectre of death, detention hangs over migrant seafood workers amid US Coast Guard raids - ICSF
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'I'm gonna jump': Spectre of death, detention hangs over migrant seafood workers amid US Coast Guard raids - ICSF.Since November, the U.S.Coast Guard—the military branch of the U.S.Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—has conducted regular raids at Louisiana fishing docks and in Louisiana bayous to arrest immigrant deckhands and oyster harvesters.Seafood workers say that the Coast Guard, in a departure from the norm, has conducted about seven sweeps since early November, resulting in multiple arrests.They have concentrated efforts 40 minutes east of New Orleans, around Hopedale, Louisiana, a small unincorporated fishing community in St.Bernard Parish that’s composed of a string of docks lining a single road, Hopedale Highway.The raids at the quiet St.Bernard Parish docks, and on the surrounding waters of Biloxi Marsh, conducted largely out of public view, are surprising to local immigration attorneys, seafood industry owners, and workers—because the Coast Guard has not historically conducted immigration enforcement at inland docks.Troy Carter told The Lens that he didn’t agree with the shift in Coast Guard priorities, and that he worried it could divert resources from the Coast Guard’s work in Louisiana that keeps river traffic moving and rescues people after disasters.“Trump’s reckless Department of Homeland Security has placed deportations above all other priorities, making Louisianans less safe,” Carter said.“This has pulled our service members away from investigations into illicit activities and actual criminals that are endangering our communities.” The government’s own analysts agree that the Coast Guard falls short on its other missions when it spends more time on migration enforcement: “According to Coast Guard officials, the maritime migration surge operation the Coast Guard began in fiscal year 2022 significantly exacerbated its inability to meet its drug interdiction mission,” per a Government Accountability Office report earlier this month….