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Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras ...

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Tim Ballard, the disgraced “anti-sex-trafficking” expert, was the subject of a hit 2023 biographical film and serial sexual misconduct allegations in the same year. After Ballard’s fall, the people he ...