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Local ICE support draws questions Activists urge LPSO to end cooperation agreement BY STEPHEN MARCANTEL Staff writer
The fatal shooting of Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration enforcement officer has prompted some communities to reevaluate local cooperation with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office signed such an agreement on Dec. 11, allowing sheriff’s deputies to question, detain and arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally under the ICE 287(g) program. The program delegates certain immigration enforcement functions to trained state and local officers under federal supervision. On Jan. 10, dozens of people showed up in front of the Sheriff’s Office and Lafayette Parish Correctional Center to voice their opposition to the continued federal crackdown on illegal immigration and the Sheriff’s Office agreement with the federal agency. The Sheriff’s Office “is going to be working directly with a federal organization that is ripping communities apart here in Acadiana,” said one protester who identified only as Richard.
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Trump backs Letlow for Senate, scrambling race
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ABOVE: Katy and David Larson dance before riding in the Bayou Mardi Gras Association parade in New Iberia on Saturday. TOP: The Bayou Mardi Gras Association parade rolls on Saturday. RIGHT: Krewe members send throws to the crowd during the parade.
Cassidy, already facing four major challengers, says he’s not dropping out
BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer
Medicaid changes may increase La. cancer mortality 32,000 missed screenings are projected, analysis says
years after new Medicaid eligibility requirements take effect next year, according to a new analysis published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology. Nationally, the study projects more than 1.1 million missed cancer screenings and about 155 preventable deaths BY EMILY WOODRUFF over the first two years after the new Staff writer rules take effect. Applying the model Nearly 32,000 missed screenings for to Louisiana’s Medicaid population, breast, lung and colorectal cancer are researchers estimate roughly 31,941 projected in Louisiana in the first two missed screenings, about 67 additional
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cancer cases, approximately nine excess late-stage diagnoses, and an estimated five preventable deaths from these cancers over that period. Five preventable deaths, oncologists say, is only the beginning. The true toll of coverage losses is often felt through delayed diagnoses and more advanced disease rather than immediate shifts in mortality, said Dr. Adrian Diaz, a surgical oncologist and co-author of the study.
President Donald Trump’s endorsement Saturday night of U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow to be Louisiana’s next senator has dramatically shaken up a race where Sen. Bill Cassidy already had four major Republican challengers, political insiders said Sunday. Trump’s decision makes it likely that Letlow will formally enter the race in the coming Letlow days and adds to the headwinds that Cassidy was facing to win a third six-year term.
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