Martin Koste

ICE says in-custody deaths this year, quote, average less than 1 percent.

This is the lowest in history, unquote.

But it does not explain how that figure was calculated.

Martin Koste, NPR News.

Abrego Garcia had been ordered to check in at the ICE field office in Baltimore, and his lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told a crowd of supporters that there was concern he wouldn't come back out.

A federal judge ordered ICE not to detain him while a legal motion is pending.

Earlier this year, the administration deported him wrongfully to a prison in his native El Salvador.

Obriga Garcia originally entered the U.S.

illegally but is shielded from being sent to El Salvador.

He also faces criminal charges for human smuggling.

Martin Koste, NPR News.

Federal immigration authorities haven't said how many arrests they've made since this operation started on Wednesday, but volunteer spotters say they haven't seen that many.

Rachel Tabor is with a group that's been teaching people strategies to avoid arrest and deportation.

Tabor says she does worry about a quote, siege situation in which the feds try to outlast the ability of people to stay away from work or school.

The Department of Homeland Security has not said how long the operation will last.

Martin Koste, NPR News, New Orleans.

The Department of Homeland Security says the operation will target, quote, violent criminals who are released after arrest for home invasion, armed robbery, grand theft auto, and rape, unquote.

But many foreign-born people here believe the dragnet will be wider, as it has been in other cities.

and will include people who are in the country illegally but have not committed crimes.

Many shops in a Latino part of the suburb of Kenner are now closed, and Ayman Abdel says people in the neighborhood are afraid to go out.