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 […]

The location of a planned U.S. Department of Homeland Security national immigration enforcement call center has changed from Adams to Nashville, a federal contract database shows. Last week, the database showed ICE had awarded a $63 million contract to Alaska-based company Koniag Government Services, and listed Adams, a rural town of about 600 people near […]

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 […]