With the immigration crackdown in New Orleans approaching, an immigration lawyer is reminding you of your rights, should you encounter a Border Patrol agent. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Rapides Parish facility where plastic containers are manufactured for companies around the world announces a major expansion. Andre Champagne reports.
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Lafayette Police arrest two Vermillion Parish men for allegedly assaulting a man who was walking home from Festivals Acadiens et Creoles last month. Tristan Frederick and Tynes Chaney, who are both 23, are charged with second-degree battery in the October 12th attack on Dustyn Cope. Sergeant Robin Green says important evidence led investigators to the two men.
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Cope is half Filipino and says the attack was racially motivated, with his attackers and others with them calling him racial slurs. Sergeant Green says the exact motive at this time, however, remains unclear.
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Green says attacks like this one cast a very dark shadow on Lafayette.
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A Baton Rouge immigration lawyer is reminding you of your rights should you be approached by a Border Patrol officer during the immigration crackdown operation that will be getting underway soon in and around New Orleans. David Rozas says the right to remain silent extends to everyone in the country, whether they’re citizens or immigrants.
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Rozas says if you do exercise your right to remain silent, you may still be detained, but the grounds for the federal agents to detain you have been playing out in the federal courts. Rozas says especially during the operation, immigrants who are in the country legally need to make an extra effort to have their required identification with them at all times.
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While President Trump, Governor Landry and others maintain that the federal agents are going after the most violent criminals, Rozas says the people they’ll really be going after are other people entirely, and they’ll be targeting them solely based on the color of their skin.
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The LSU Board of Supervisors has called for a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the lawsuit filed by Brian Kelly against LSU as the former Tigers football coach is seeking his entire 54-million-dollar buyout. Piper Hutchinson with the Louisiana Illuminator says most of the meeting will take place behind closed doors
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When LSU fired Kelly last month they said negotiations over the size of the buyout would continue. Contractually, Kelly is due 54-million dollars, but according to the lawsuit filed by Kelly’s attorneys, the school is seeking to fire Kelly with cause, which means they would not have to pay any of the buyout. Hutchinson says we will find out tomorrow on how LSU plans to respond to Kelly’s lawsuit…
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Hutchinson says once the board members emerge from executive session, they will announce their next steps in the Kelly buyout dispute…
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Plastipak Manufacturing announces a major expansion of its Pineville manufacturing facility. The nearly 54-million-dollar plan will add 200-thousand square feet to its facility, and it will create 15 direct jobs and 25 indirect jobs while retaining 340 current positions. Louisiana Central President and CEO Chris Masingill says Plastipak is one of the global leaders in plastic packaging.
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Masingill says as such, if you use a certain brand of detergent, the bottle that it’s contained in was manufactured in Rapides Parish.
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Masingill says the expansion of the facility is a huge economic win for the entire Central Louisiana region.
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The project is expected to be completed by the end of next year.