{"id":43134,"date":"2026-01-16T07:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/ice-arrested-2-truck-drivers-heading-to-a-major-meta-data-center-project\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:11:23","slug":"ice-arrested-2-truck-drivers-heading-to-a-major-meta-data-center-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/ice-arrested-2-truck-drivers-heading-to-a-major-meta-data-center-project\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE arrested 2 truck drivers heading to a major Meta data center project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6969103404eda4732f2f2257?format=jpeg\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump holds an image showing the size of Meta&#039;s new data center, during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC.\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta&#039;s new data center under construction in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta construction project in Louisiana, officials said.<\/li>\n<li>The individuals were detained during a traffic stop inspection of vehicles heading to the site.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;ICE did not enter the Meta site at any time,&quot; the local sheriff&#039;s office said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meta&#039;s new mega data center project had a brush with immigration authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#039;s Office in Louisiana&#039;s Richland Parish, where the massive Hyperion Data Center is under construction, said Wednesday that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained two dump truck drivers traveling to the site during a traffic stop inspection.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;During those stops, two drivers were arrested by ICE due to their immigration status,&quot; the office said. The drivers were from Guatemala and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;ICE did not enter the Meta site at any time,&quot; the office said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Business Insider late Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said that ICE did not target a Meta data center in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>The DHS spokesperson said that the ICE agents had carried out a &quot;targeted operation&quot; to arrest the truck driver from Honduras, and had encountered another driver from Guatemala. It said both were arrested and are in ICE custody.<\/p>\n<p>Meta declined to comment to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>The Meta project is the largest of several multi-gigawatt data centers that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said will come online as the company races to catch up on AI computing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#039;s arrests crystallize an issue that companies have increasingly had to grapple with over the past year: how to prepare workers for an ICE encounter, whether on or off company property.<\/p>\n<p>The action also follows a recent surge of ICE activity in cities and towns across the US, which has met some resistance in Democratic-led states.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has been a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump&#039;s immigration policies. The state is receiving nearly $1 million a month to house detainees at its Angola prison, Axios reported, citing public records.<\/p>\n<p><em>January 15, 11.25 p.m. E.T. \u2014 This story was updated to include comments from a DHS spokesperson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta&#039;s new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta construction project in Louisiana, officials said. The individuals were detained during a traffic stop inspection of vehicles heading to the site. &quot;ICE did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}