Blue metropolis mayor says ICE arrests are usually not ‘targeted on making us safer’

[ad_1] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) performed operations in Nashville this week, ensuing within the arrests of a convicted youngster intercourse predator and an alleged gang member, however the mayor of the town mentioned the arrests weren't targeted on making the town safer.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared Democratic Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s letter to the town concerning the ICE arrests.

"Our prime precedence is protecting folks protected, and we’re deeply involved that what look like federal actions are making that tougher," O’Connell wrote. "In a single day, we perceive that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Brokers detained folks throughout enforcement actions in Center Tennessee. As we study extra, I wish to be clear: No [Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD)] personnel had been concerned in final evening’s enforcement motion."

He added that the town’s police division doesn't have federal immigration authority, nor are its members skilled to conduct immigration enforcement.

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Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell criticized ICE raids in Nashville, saying they don't seem to be targeted on making the town safer and go away the neighborhood fearing regulation enforcement interplay. (Getty Photos)

O’Connell additionally mentioned the police department lacks entry to federal immigration databases.

"The sort of federal enforcement motion isn't targeted on making us safer and leaves folks in our neighborhood fearing any interplay with regulation enforcement when there's a crime occurring," he added. "We might be searching for the names of these detained."

DHS mentioned the Nashville operation resulted within the arrests of a convicted youngster intercourse predator, an alleged member of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, a person convicted of aggravated assault and a number of unlawful aliens on drug prices.

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ICE made a number of arrests in Tennessee, together with an alleged member of Tren de Aragua and a convicted youngster intercourse predator. (Getty Photos)

"The Nashville Mayor ought to need these legal unlawful aliens off American streets," DHS posted on X . "Assaults and demonization of our courageous regulation enforcement is mistaken. ICE officers at the moment are going through a 413% improve in assaults. President Trump campaigned on immigration enforcement, the American folks voted for it, and DHS is delivering."

O’Connell’s workplace didn't reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

ICE lately introduced that in President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second time period, the company arrested over 66,000 unlawful immigrants and eliminated greater than 65,000.

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ICE made a number of arrests in Tennessee, together with a member of Tren de Aragua and a convicted youngster intercourse predator. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)

ICE arrested 66,463 unlawful immigrants and eliminated 65,682, together with these accused of threatening public security and nationwide safety, in accordance with a information launch from ICE.

Three in 4 arrests of illegal immigrants concerned somebody accused of committing against the law, ICE claimed.

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The entire variety of ICE unlawful immigrant arrests consists of 2,288 alleged gang members from Tren de Aragua, MS-13, 18th Avenue and different gangs. Tren de Aragua and MS-13 at the moment are listed as overseas terrorist organizations.