For an English version of this story, click here. Oficiales de inmigración enfrentaron estuvieron en un punto muerto por varias horas el lunes cuando intentaron detener a un hombre en Hermitage. Nadie fue arrestado, pero el incidente pasó en medio de temores de redadas de inmigración a través del país.
Hermitage Residents Rally Around Neighbor Targeted By Immigration Officials
Listen Leer en español. Immigration officials faced an hours-long standoff Monday when they attempted to detain a Hermitage man. No one was arrested, but the incident comes amid fears of immigration raids nationwide.
Deported — Then Brought Back: An Iraqi Native Battles To Stay In Nashville
Listen Under President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been ramping up efforts to deport hundreds of Iraqi nationals whose legal status in the U.S. is in limbo. But one Nashville man’s case shows how hard it is to send someone back after nearly 25 years in the U.S.
Fearing A Surge In Arrests, Nashville Immigration Rights Group Teaches Communities How To Prepare
Listen Fifty people gathered in a conference room at the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition headquarters in South Nashville — Latinos from 15 different cities in Tennessee taking a course in how to prepare for a new state immigration law.
Split At The Border, 11-Year-Old Reunites With Her Mom In Middle Tennessee
Hear the radio version of this story. Scroll down to read or hear this story in Spanish. Desplácese hacia abajo para leer o escuchar esta historia en español. A Guatemalan mother separated from her 11-year-old daughter while attempting to cross into the United States to seek asylum in May reunited with her Thursday night at […]
An Immigrant Mom Seeking Asylum Arrives in Tennessee, Without Her Daughter
Listen “You’re animals.” That was the first thing Albertina Contreras says she heard after she set foot on American soil, shortly before she was shackled and her daughter taken away to a detention facility for kids. They were headed for Murfreesboro, but only Contreras made it. Now, attorneys are trying to reunite the family, in […]
Tennessee Town Grapples With Fear After ICE Raid Shakes Community
People living in a small, rural Tennessee town are still trying to navigate the fallout of a major federal immigration raid earlier this month. Bean Station, in northeast Tennessee, is home to about 3,000 people. The big jobs in town are the meatpacking plants and tomato fields.
Tennessee Sheriffs Fear Anti-‘Sanctuary Cities’ Measure Could Upset Balance
Listen A measure that would require sheriff’s departments in Tennessee to hold people suspected of being in the country illegally — even when sheriffs have evidence that they’re not — is making its way through the state legislature. It’s being described as a tightening up of a 2009 Tennessee law that banned so-called “sanctuary cities,” […]
After Immigration Raid In Bean Station, Advocates Try To Make Sure No One Is Left Behind
Immigration advocates are calling last week’s operation at an East Tennessee meatpacking plant the largest workplace raid since President Trump took office. Ninety-seven workers allegedly without legal status were arrested, and more than half have already been transferred to detention centers out of state.
Detained Iraqis Living In Tennessee Could Be Released On Bail
Listen A group of Nashville Kurds could be released from federal custody after spending nearly seven months in detention, after a judge in Michigan determined the government has not shown they’re dangerous to the public or flight risks.