(The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has purchased more California properties for the purpose of using them as detention centers.
By the time she was released from a Louisiana immigrant detention center, a Nashville mother of two could no longer breastfeed her young daughters. Her milk had dried up. An asylum seeker from Guatemala, she had not seen or spoken with her children since being detained by immigration agents at her home on May 19 […]
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction that would prevent the Tennessee Highway Patrol from conducting pretextual traffic stops in tandem with federal immigration agents. U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger ruled the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition had not made a “clear showing” it was entitled to the injunction […]
Dozens of residents packed the Nashville Metro Council on Tuesday to speak against plans to establish a national immigration enforcement support center in Nashville. One after another, Nashville residents took to the podium during the meeting’s public comment period to say they opposed the coordination center. “We are here to protect our community from a […]
During the early hours of Sunday morning, legal advocates with the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition awakened to buzzing cellphones. More than 120 men and women had been rounded up by immigration agents inside the Memphis nightclub, El Corralón. Their families and friends needed help. “Parents didn’t come home. Roommates and friends stopped answering […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 121 immigrants during a raid on the El Corralón nightclub in Memphis during the early hours of Sunday morning, according to a news release Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security. The release confirmed weekend reports of a large-scale raid by Memphis grassroots organization Vecindarios 901, whose volunteers […]
Local officials on Thursday were still seeking information about a multi-million-dollar government contract with an Alaska-based corporation designating Adams, Tennessee as the location of a national immigration enforcement call center. A summary document posted on the federal government’s contract website shows it has entered into a contract of up to $63 million with a subsidiary […]
Tennessee taxpayers are paying about $1,961 each to fund the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, according to an analysis of the federal budget released by the Economic Policy Institute. The think tank developed an online tool that calculates the average taxpayer’s share of the estimated $268.9 billion cost of deportations through the end of President […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $63 million contract to an Alaska corporation to operate a national immigration enforcement call center in rural Tennessee, a federal contract database shows. The city of Adams, a Robertson County town of about 600 people near the Kentucky border, is identified in the database as the future […]
Revenue grew more than 27% for private prison operator CoreCivic as the Tennessee company profited from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that support the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, according to a shareholders’ report released last week. Revenue from ICE, alone, increased more than 50% compared to the same three-month period last […]