With concerns growing amid Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns, could the agency conduct operations at Mardi Gras?

According to an ICE spokesperson, activity during parades is unlikely but “nothing is off the table.”

Lindsay Williams, ICE Media Operations Unit Chief for the Southeast, said the potential lack in activity would be due to large crowds, tons of traffic and logistical problems.

“If traffic and things are bad and people are busy doing other stuff, they probably wouldn’t,” Williams said. “But I wouldn’t take anything off the table.”

Mobile’s Mardi Gras parade schedule begins February 14 and lasts until March 3.

As part of a mass deportation campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration, ICE has increased operations and raids across the country since Jan. 20.

In Alabama, arrests have already been made as advocates and lawyers warn affected communities to, “remain cautious and vigilant.”

This has caused anxiety and panic for many within immigrant communities in Alabama especially after Trump’s administration repealed a policy restricting ICE from making arrests or raids at certain facilities like schools and churches.

A Mobile County Public School teacher was recently placed on leave after it was revealed they sent an email advising co-workers how to protect students from ICE.

Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch has also stated he intends to direct his agency to help ICE in any way possible.

Burch said that while undocumented immigrants with criminal histories are the primary target, other individuals could be arrested “collaterally.”

“You know, frequently as they will go looking for the individuals they’re looking for,” Burch said, “there will be several other people with them that are illegal. And collaterally, they will more than likely be detained as well.”