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.

Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks

NEW ORLEANS — Protesters filled the streets of Charlotte this week as U.S. Border Patrol launched operations in the city, marking the latest expansion of the federal government’s immigration-enforcement efforts.

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

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.

Trump administration reportedly deploying 250 federal border agents to Louisiana and Mississippi in massive immigration crackdown targeting nearly 5,000 people.

Landry said ICE was welcome to come and “start taking some of these dangerous criminal illegal aliens off of our streets.”

AG: “New Orleans has seen a high number of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens, including Kristie Thibodeaux, who was shot to death in the French Quarter."