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Immigration and Customs Enforcement

As this South Nashville health center practices for ICE raids, it still wants immigrant patients to feel ‘celebrated’

By Char Daston

February 11, 2025

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ICE says it will now enter schools, churches and hospitals. Staff at one clinic is practicing what they’ll do if agents show up.

Filed Under: Health Care, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Healthcare, illegal immigration, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Siloam

Tennessee passes sweeping immigration law to support Trump’s mass deportations

By Marianna Bacallao

January 30, 2025

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Gov. Bill Lee wants to create a new state division to enforce immigration laws, mirroring a push from President Donald Trump to expel migrants.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, 287(g), Antioch, Antioch High School, Bill Lee, Gabby Salinas, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, school shooting, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, tnleg, tnpol, Todd Gardenhire

ICE officials will need legal authorization to enter Nashville public schools, district says

By Char Daston

January 27, 2025

How do new immigration enforcement policies affect students in Metro Schools?

Filed Under: Education, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Donald Trump, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Metro Nashville Public Schools, undocumented immigrants

Republicans criticized a federal plan to transport asylum seekers to Tennessee, but migrant-serving groups have sought this kind of coordination

By Alexis Marshall

January 3, 2023

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High profile Tennessee Republicans railed against a federal plan a couple of weeks ago that they said would bring “busloads” of asylum seekers to the state. So far, that hasn’t happened.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, TNGOP

Slaughterhouse workers allege brutality in case against federal agents in 2018 raid

By Anna Gallegos-Cannon

August 16, 2022

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The Tennessee Lookout is fighting for the release of a video that allegedly shows a federal agent stepping on the neck of a man captured in a 2018 raid at a slaughterhouse in Bean Station, Tenn.

Filed Under: News Hits, Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

After a federal memo, Nashville organizers push for better workplace protections for immigrants

By Alexis Marshall

December 7, 2021

The Biden administration has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end workplace raids. Nashville workers and advocates have praised the move, but say there’s still more to be done to protect undocumented workers.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, workers' dignity

Nashville Has ‘Work To Do’ On Immigration Reporting, Panel Says

By Tony Gonzalez

December 13, 2019

Nashville Immigration Task Force

A new review finds that few departments within Nashville government have written policies about how to answer requests from federal immigration authorities.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Mayor Briley Signs Executive Order To Discourage Local Cooperation With ICE

By Samantha Max

September 3, 2019

Listen Leer en español. Mayor David Briley signed an executive order Tuesday morning that discourages local cooperation with federal immigration agencies. The policy comes amid growing scrutiny of Metro’s relationship with immigration officials.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Judíos En Nashville Y Migrantes Se Unen Para Protestar Agencia De Inmigración Y Control De Aduanas

By Samantha Max

August 19, 2019

Read in English. Docenas de manifestantes criticaron la cooperación local con Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en el norte de Nashville el lunes por la mañana. Migrantes, Judíos y aliados se reunieron en una calle cerca de una oficina de campo de ICE con pancartas y libros de oraciones para una manifestación llena de […]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Español, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Nashville Jews And Immigrants Unite To Protest Immigration And Customs Enforcement

By Samantha Max

August 19, 2019

Leer en español. Several dozen protesters criticized local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in North Nashville Monday morning. Immigrants, Jews and allies gathered down the street from an ICE field office with picket signs and prayer books for a music-filled rally.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News

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