The Trump administration's planned immigration enforcement crackdown in New Orleans could start as early as Dec. 1, Department of Homeland Security sources told CBS News.

The planned operation follows dispatches of Border Patrol agents this year to Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina.

One New Orleans construction company owner has told Hispanic workers not to show up for work beginning on Friday for fear of immigration raids.

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi,

A leader of a local after-school program said some of his students have already been missing class since immigration enforcement ramped up earlier this year.

The Trump administration is planning to dispatch Border Patrol agents to Charlotte and New Orleans to oversee immigration operations that could involve armored vehicles and special operations teams.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to deploy around 250 federal border agents to New Orleans in the upcoming weeks for a two-month long immigration

Thomas Homan said that additional federal agents would descend on the city if it did not help with President Trump’s deportation campaign.