Blue city mayor says ICE arrests of dangerous criminals are not ‘focused on making us safer’
U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE conducted operations in Nashville this week resulting in the arrests of a convicted child sex predator and an alleged gang member but the mayor of the city revealed the arrests were not focused on making the city safer The Department of Homeland Measure DHS shared Democratic Nashville Mayor Freddie O Connell s letter to the city about the ICE arrests Our top priority is keeping people safe and we re deeply concerned that what appear to be federal actions are making that harder O Connell wrote Overnight we understand that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents detained people during enforcement actions in Middle Tennessee As we learn more I want to be clear No Metropolitan Nashville Police Department MNPD personnel were involved in last night s enforcement action He added that the city s police department does not have federal immigration authority nor are its members trained to conduct immigration enforcement ICE TOUTS RECORD-BREAKING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT DURING TRUMP'S FIRST DAYSO Connell also mentioned the police department lacks access to federal immigration databases This type of federal enforcement action is not focused on making us safer and leaves people in our group fearing any interaction with law enforcement when there is a crime occurring he added We will be seeking the names of those detained DHS announced the Nashville operation resulted in the arrests of a convicted child sex predator an alleged member of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua an individual convicted of aggravated assault and multiple illegal aliens on drug charges ICE SAYS IT DEPORTED CRIMINAL ASYLUM SEEKERS FROM TEXAS INCLUDING A MAN WITH ILLEGAL ENTRIES The Nashville Mayor should want these criminal illegal aliens off American streets DHS posted on X Attacks and demonization of our brave law enforcement is wrong ICE officers are now facing a increase in assaults President Trump campaigned on immigration enforcement the American people voted for it and DHS is delivering O Connell s office did not respond to Fox News Digital s request for comment ICE just now broadcasted that during President Donald Trump s first days of his second term the agency arrested over illegal immigrants and removed more than VENEZUELAN ESTABLISHMENT USES TREN DE ARAGUA AS PROXIES TO UNDERMINE US POPULATION SAFETY FBI ASSESSMENT FINDSICE arrested illegal immigrants and removed including those accused of threatening society safety and national precaution according to a news release from ICE Three in four arrests of illegal immigrants involved someone accused of committing a crime ICE claimed CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe total number of ICE illegal immigrant arrests includes alleged gang members from Tren de Aragua MS- th Street and other gangs Tren de Aragua and MS- are now listed as foreign terrorist organizations Fox News Digital s Alexandra Koch contributed to this record
