Published: June 11, 2025
By: Anna Puleo LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE–Lawmakers passed two bills this week aimed at expanding the state’s role in immigration enforcement, joining states like Texas and Florida in helping the Trump administration crack down on undocumented immigrants.
One bill would require agencies to track the legal status of people using public services, and the other would criminalize interference with federal immigration operations.
The Legislature last year empowered local and state law-enforcement to arrest people on suspicion that they were undocumented immigrants. Gov. Jeff Landry signed that bill into law, and the two bills passed this week will now go to him for his signature.
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