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🔴The facility is officially called Camp 57 due to Governor Landry being the 57th governor of Louisiana

🔴Officials have not specified which crimes would constitute staying at Camp 57

🔴Camp 57 was formed after the feds asked Landry for more detention space for ICE arrestees.
September 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Despite relaxed immigration/labor laws that allowed undocumented workers to help in the rebuild process — 81% of Hispanic workers said their employers treated to deport them while on the job site.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hispanic workers worked an average of 9.5 hours a day for six days a week - which is the most out of any demographic.

The average pay was just over $16 for documented workers and $10 for undocumented workers.

28% of undocumented workers reported issues getting paid.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Of the tens of thousands of workers who helped in New Orleans’s rebuild the Berkeley Journal of Labor Law estimates 45% were Hispanic.

54% of those Hispanic workers were undocumented from Central and South America.

Other workers came from Florida, Georgia and Texas.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM