Louisiana 2025 Regular Legislative Session - Anti-Immigrant Laws

This community explainer outlines six anti-immigrant laws passed during Louisiana’s 2025 legislative session, all of which are now in effect as of the publication of this explainer, and highlights their impact on immigrant communities across the state. These laws seek to expand surveillance and arrest powers, limit public benefits and legal rights for undocumented people, and mandate immigration status checks across public agencies. This explainer also includes a brief overview of the "Operation Geaux" executive order, detailing how it expands immigration enforcement in Louisiana. Together, these laws threaten civil liberties, encourage racial profiling, and harm immigrant communities, advocates, and even public officials who support immigrant rights or decline to assist ICE. This explainer is meant to help communities understand the legal risks these laws create and support informed, safer immigrant justice work.