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Incidents in Louisiana

This page collects all documented immigration-enforcement incidents that occurred in the state of Louisiana. These include workplace raids, traffic stops, home arrests, detentions, deportation actions, abuses, and any other discrete events involving ICE, CBP, HSI, ERO, local 287(g) partners, or any federal–local cooperative unit.

All incidents listed here were created and verified by the ICE List research team. Members of the public can submit information using our incident submission form.

Overview

Status: Active documentation Primary field office: New Orleans Field Office Regional focus: Detention centers across rural Louisiana, New Orleans metro arrests, workplace operations in seafood and construction industries Related categories:

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  • Two young men kidnapped outside taco truck (Walker, Louisiana)
    two young men kidnapped outside taco truck (Walker, Louisiana)
    agents forceablly ziptied and slammed a young man down on the ground, other young man was ziptied on the other side of a vehicleInjured
    at least 2Detained
    Date
    Unspecified
    Time
    Unspecified
    City
    Walker
    State
    Louisiana
    Location
    sabor a la mexicana food truck
    Agencies
    plain clothes with “Police” vests, US border patrol,
    Status
    Not researched
    Vehicles
    2?
    Verification
    Not researched
    Key sources
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/comments/1pj42dt/icecbp_in_walker_louisiana_brutally_slammed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    ⚠ Verification status: NOT RESEARCHED — submitted lead, not yet verified by ICE List. Volunteers: this page is an unprocessed tip awaiting research.

    Summary: On an unspecified date in Walker, Louisiana, a submission was received reporting: two young men kidnapped outside taco truck.

    Full Description

    Two individuals kidnapped outside their taco truck. Lots of good face footage in this video. Copied the following from reddit post: "From The Advocate:

    At least seven Border Patrol agents detained Candido Cano Castro, 19, and Cristal Cano Castro, 21, around noon Tuesday in front of the Sabor A La Mexicana food truck in Walker, according to eyewitnesses.

    Agents bashed the front driver's side and passenger's side windows of a car while detaining the pair, said Mayra Moreno, the owner of the food truck, who recorded the incident.

    Moreno said multiple cars and agents came to detain the pair.

    "They were hurting them a lot," Moreno said.

    Chunks of the car window, shards of glass, blood stains and the car were left in the wake of the raid near the food truck.

    Moreno, friends and residents from the Pannu Mobile Home Park next door, where the pair lived, cleaned up the scene afterward and look for the pair's papers in the broken car."

    Force / Conduct Reported

    • Force used (per submitter): Yes
    • Description: agents forceablly ziptied and slammed a young man down on the ground, other young man was ziptied on the other side of a vehicle

    Incident Details (as submitted)

    • Date: Unspecified
    • Time: Unspecified
    • Location: Walker, Louisiana — sabor a la mexicana food truck
    • Agencies named: plain clothes with “Police” vests, US border patrol,
    • Anyone taken: at least 2
    • Vehicles: 2?
    • Submitter is witness: No

    Agents

    No agents identified. To be completed by the Agent Team.

    Evidence

    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/comments/1pj42dt/icecbp_in_walker_louisiana_brutally_slammed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    Internal Notes

    • This page was generated from a public submission and has not been verified. Apply the ICE List two-source standard before changing verification status.
    • Submitter contact details have been withheld; they are held in the internal submissions log.
    • Source submission ID: EkVlYqq.
    Needs review
  • Omg ICE just snatched a dude right out of his car in do (New Orleans, Louisiana 2026-01-30)
    Omg ICE just snatched a dude right out of his car in do (New Orleans, Louisiana 2026-01-30)
    They beat the guy and tased him for no reasonInjured
    Yes 4 peopleDetained
    Date
    2026-01-30
    Time
    06:37
    City
    New Orleans
    State
    Louisiana
    Location
    Downtown new Orleans on canal street
    Agencies
    ICE and homeland
    Status
    Not researched
    Vehicles
    5
    Verification
    Not researched
    Key sources
    • No external source provided in submission

    ⚠ Verification status: NOT RESEARCHED — submitted lead, not yet verified by ICE List. Volunteers: this page is an unprocessed tip awaiting research.

    Summary: On 2026-01-30 in New Orleans, Louisiana, a submission was received reporting: Omg ICE just snatched a dude right out of his car in downtown new Orleans.

    Full Description

    Yeah they just pulled up in their unmarked cars pulled out their guns on the dude ordered him out of his car and arrested him right in front of his family. There were kids in the backseat!!

    Force / Conduct Reported

    • Force used (per submitter): Yes
    • Description: They beat the guy and tased him for no reason

    Incident Details (as submitted)

    • Date: 2026-01-30
    • Time: 06:37
    • Location: New Orleans, Louisiana — Downtown new Orleans on canal street
    • Agencies named: ICE and homeland
    • Anyone taken: Yes 4 people
    • Vehicles: 5
    • Submitter is witness: Yes

    Agents

    No agents identified. To be completed by the Agent Team.

    Evidence

    • No external source provided in submission

    Internal Notes

    • This page was generated from a public submission and has not been verified. Apply the ICE List two-source standard before changing verification status.
    • Submitter contact details have been withheld; they are held in the internal submissions log.
    • Source submission ID: jaj59vJ.
    Needs review
  • Incident:2025-04-25 Two-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported 'with no meaningful process' Reuters
    Two-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported 'with no meaningful process' Reuters
    Date
    2025-04-25
    City
    Alexandria
    State
    Louisiana
    Operation
    Concerning Arrest/Detention, Concerning Deportation, U.S. Citizen
    Status
    Unverified (news report link)
    Verification
    Unverified (external reporting link only)
    Key sources
      * Tags: Concerning Arrest/Detention, Concerning Deportation, U.S. Citizen

    Summary: Linked report: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-year-old-us-citizen-appears-have-been-deported-with-no-meaningful-process-2025-04-26/ Tags: Concerning Arrest/Detention, Concerning Deportation, U.S. Citizen

    Full Description

    Linked report: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-year-old-us-citizen-appears-have-been-deported-with-no-meaningful-process-2025-04-26/ Tags: Concerning Arrest/Detention, Concerning Deportation, U.S. Citizen

    Evidence

    Needs review
  • Incident:2025-04-24 ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation - ACLU
    ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation - ACLU
    Date
    2025-04-24
    City
    New Orleans
    State
    Louisiana
    Operation
    U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation
    Status
    Unverified (news report link)
    Verification
    Unverified (external reporting link only)
    Key sources
      * Tags: U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation

    Summary: Linked report: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation Tags: U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation

    Full Description

    Linked report: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation Tags: U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation

    Evidence

    Needs review
  • Incident:2025-04-22 ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation - ACLU
    ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation - ACLU
    Date
    2025-04-22
    City
    New Orleans
    State
    Louisiana
    Operation
    U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation
    Status
    Unverified (news report link)
    Verification
    Unverified (external reporting link only)
    Key sources
      * Tags: U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation

    Summary: Linked report: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation Tags: U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation

    Full Description

    Linked report: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation Tags: U.S. Citizen, Concerning Deportation

    Evidence

    Needs review
  • Death of Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera
    Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera
    1 — drowning while fleeing arrestKilled
    Date
    2025-12-18
    State
    Louisiana
    Location
    Hopedale, Louisiana (Bayou La Loutre, St. Bernard Parish)
    Agencies
    U.S. Coast Guard (DHS) — dock immigration sweep
    Operation
    Death connected to an immigration-enforcement operation
    Status
    Local emergency services recovered the body; press and community scrutiny of the Coast Guard's new immigration-enforcement role.
    Verification
    source confidence: high
    Key sources

    Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera (48, Honduran) died on 2025-12-18 during or as a result of a U.S. Coast Guard (DHS) — dock immigration sweep operation, in Hopedale, Louisiana (Bayou La Loutre, St. Bernard Parish). As Coast Guard agents arrived at oyster docks demanding immigration papers, he jumped from a boat into the bayou to evade arrest and drowned; he reportedly could not swim, and his body was recovered that evening.

    Official account

    Occurred amid a series of Coast Guard dock/bayou immigration sweeps begun November 2025; the boat captain called it unprecedented.

    What is documented

    • Person: Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera, age 48; Honduran.
    • Location: Hopedale, Louisiana (Bayou La Loutre, St. Bernard Parish).
    • Agency: U.S. Coast Guard (DHS) — dock immigration sweep.
    • Cause: drowning while fleeing arrest.
    • Circumstance: As Coast Guard agents arrived at oyster docks demanding immigration papers, he jumped from a boat into the bayou to evade arrest and drowned; he reportedly could not swim, and his body was recovered that evening.

    Scrutiny of the official account

    Grounded in the sourced record below; this documents the dispute rather than asserting a conclusion.

    • Status / dispute: Local emergency services recovered the body; press and community scrutiny of the Coast Guard's new immigration-enforcement role.

    Unanswered questions

    1. Will the responsible agency release its full records, footage, and the medical examiner's findings?
    2. Was the death preventable — and were required medical or welfare protocols followed?
    3. Will an independent body (not the agency itself) investigate?

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    Needs review
  • Death of Mamuka Artmeladze in ICE custody
    Mamuka Artmeladze
    1 — unknown (pending autopsy)Killed
    Date
    2026-06-04
    State
    Louisiana
    Location
    Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield/Alexandria, LA
    Agencies
    ICE
    Operation
    Death in immigration detention / custody
    Status
    Autopsy pending.
    Verification
    source confidence: high
    Key sources

    Mamuka Artmeladze (43, Georgia) died on 2026-06-04 while in the custody of ICE, in Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield/Alexandria, LA. Found unresponsive and taken to a local medical center.

    What is known

    • Person: Mamuka Artmeladze, age 43; Georgia (country).
    • Date: 2026-06-04.
    • Location: Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield/Alexandria, LA.
    • Agency: ICE.
    • Reported cause: unknown (pending autopsy).
    • Circumstance: Found unresponsive and taken to a local medical center.
    • Official account: ICE-reported death.
    • Status: Autopsy pending.

    This is a sourced stub. If you have further documentation, please contribute (see below).

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    Needs review
  • Death of Alejandro Cabrera Clemente in ICE custody
    Alejandro Cabrera Clemente
    1 — unknown (found unresponsive in cell)Killed
    Date
    2026-04-11
    State
    Louisiana
    Location
    Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, LA
    Agencies
    ICE
    Operation
    Death in immigration detention / custody
    Status
    Under investigation.
    Verification
    source confidence: high
    Key sources

    Alejandro Cabrera Clemente (49, Mexico) died on 2026-04-11 while in the custody of ICE, in Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, LA. Found unresponsive in his cell.

    What is known

    • Person: Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, age 49; Mexico.
    • Date: 2026-04-11.
    • Location: Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, LA.
    • Agency: ICE.
    • Reported cause: unknown (found unresponsive in cell).
    • Circumstance: Found unresponsive in his cell.
    • Official account: ICE-reported death.
    • Status: Under investigation.

    This is a sourced stub. If you have further documentation, please contribute (see below).

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  • Cars at the Basile facility (Basile, Louisiana)
    Cars at the Basile facility (Basile, Louisiana)
    N/ADetained
    Date
    Unspecified
    Time
    Unspecified
    City
    Basile
    State
    Louisiana
    Location
    Primary detention center in Louisiana.
    Agencies
    N/A
    Status
    Not researched
    Verification
    Not researched
    Key sources
    • [REHOST NEEDED – contains private access token, do not publish as-is] https://storage.tally.so/private/XRecorder_20260125_09.jpg?id=bYDNJL&accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImJZRE5KTCIsImZvcm1JZCI6IldPMlpKUSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTQ1MjM3MX0.3-20zfNyhI-X44qCE7PLS_mYtjNbFk-pqtTLtFeqFAo&signature=e40aabcc1d878622cd8fe6e164557d2b7071b2c92efd73a6cbe33eaaafa685f2

    ⚠ Verification status: NOT RESEARCHED — submitted lead, not yet verified by ICE List. Volunteers: this page is an unprocessed tip awaiting research.

    Summary: On an unspecified date in Basile, Louisiana, a submission was received reporting: Cars at the Basile facility.

    Full Description

    Not a submission of evidence, but attached are screenshots of vehicles in front of the facility, which may help in the long run of identifying agents

    Force / Conduct Reported

    • Force used (per submitter): No
    • Description: N/A

    Incident Details (as submitted)

    • Date: Unspecified
    • Time: Unspecified
    • Location: Basile, Louisiana — Primary detention center in Louisiana.
    • Agencies named: N/A
    • Anyone taken: N/A
    • Vehicles: Unspecified
    • Submitter is witness: No

    Agents

    No agents identified. To be completed by the Agent Team.

    Evidence

    • [REHOST NEEDED – contains private access token, do not publish as-is] https://storage.tally.so/private/XRecorder_20260125_09.jpg?id=bYDNJL&accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImJZRE5KTCIsImZvcm1JZCI6IldPMlpKUSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTQ1MjM3MX0.3-20zfNyhI-X44qCE7PLS_mYtjNbFk-pqtTLtFeqFAo&signature=e40aabcc1d878622cd8fe6e164557d2b7071b2c92efd73a6cbe33eaaafa685f2

    Internal Notes

    • This page was generated from a public submission and has not been verified. Apply the ICE List two-source standard before changing verification status.
    • Submitter contact details have been withheld; they are held in the internal submissions log.
    • Source submission ID: 9qkxOQG.
    • One or more evidence links contain private access tokens and must be re-hosted before any public use.
    Needs review

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Key locations in Louisiana

  • New Orleans
  • Baton Rouge
  • Lafayette
  • Shreveport
  • Rural detention hubs across central Louisiana

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Deaths in Louisiana

  1. Death of Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera
  2. Death of Alejandro Cabrera Clemente in ICE custody
  3. Death of Mamuka Artmeladze in ICE custody

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