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In a small La. town, national spotlight returns Jena’s ICE detention center has become a significant presence in the area
BY JOHN SIMERMAN | Staff writer
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Residents attend the
JENA — A group of protesters stood outside the federal immigration center in this central Louisiana town a few weeks ago, calling for it to be emptied, when a truck rolled past and belched a plume of exhaust at them. The driver circled around as the group faced a bank of TV news cameras set up in the brush across the road, then repeated the act — a greeting of sorts to a hamlet in the pines that once again has drawn a national media glare. The protesters had trekked 230 miles that morning from New Orleans to support Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, now in his second month at the detention center, where a judge that day had found him deportable. It’s here, at a compound cut into the pines a few miles from downtown Jena, that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have sent
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Community Church Easter Sunrise Services at Sugar Mill Pond Gazebo in Youngsville on Sunday. LEFT: Residents listen to pastor Andy Tribe preach during the service on
Sunday. STAFF PHOTOS By BRAD KEMP
STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER
A truck with a Louisiana license plate makes one of two passes within 10 minutes purposely pushing out dark clouds of exhaust from its diesel engine next to faith leaders and protesters April 11 outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Jena. The crowd was supporting Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil after judges ruled he could be deported.
Carbon capture faces stricter rules
Tulane archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city New technology paints a clearer picture of region
House committee to tackle two dozen related bills
BY JENNA ROSS | Staff writer
BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | Staff writer
Discovering Mayan cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over the course of his career, professor Marcello Canuto has done plenty of that. Still does, sometimes. But these days, the discoveries are coming from a dark, cool computer lab on the Tulane University campus. That lab is the new star of the Middle American Research Institute, an enduring
Over the past four years, $49 billion in new industrial projects have been proposed in Louisiana to make hydrogen, ammonia and other products — and all of them are banking on permanent underground storage of the greenhouse gas pollution they would produce. “Carbon capture and sequestration” is a major economic development focus in Louisiana, given the state’s suitable geology and the industry’s move toward reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to climate change.
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Tulane University professor Marcello Canuto, left, reviews LIDAR images with graduate student Miguel Garcia at the Middle American Research Institute in New Orleans this month. New technology is giving researchers a better view of ancient ä See CITY, page 5A civilizations.
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