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From Fox News: The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office announced that efforts by the governor and other state lawmakers were successful and ultimately stopped a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plan to release illegal immigrants, including convicted criminals, into the state.
State Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Wednesday that after a lawsuit was filed by the AG’s office, ICE was forced to produce previously undisclosed information about the agency’s planned release of thousands of detained migrants, including convicted criminals.
The office said it obtained hundreds of pages of documents that shed light on federal authorities’ since-abandoned plan to transport potentially thousands of “single adult” immigration detainees into Tennessee.
The findings originate from a 2022 discovery by the governor’s office when it learned that ICE had been coordinating with local immigration-rights groups and Nashville officials to release large numbers of detainees into the state before the anticipated termination of the federal government’s Title 42 public health order.
In a press release, the Tennessee Attorney General announced:
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti today announced that following a successful lawsuit by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) was forced to produce previously undisclosed information about the agency’s release of thousands of detained migrants, including dangerous convicted criminals. The hundreds of pages of documents obtained shed light on federal authorities’ since-abandoned plan to transport potentially thousands of “single adult” immigration detainees into Tennessee.
The records show that ICE’s plan to release migrants into this State was derailed by pushback from Tennessee’s Governor and U.S. Senators and ultimately stopped through successful litigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and other States.
The information further reveals that although ICE abandoned its failed plan for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee, the agency nonetheless released over 7,000 detainees directly from its Louisiana facilities at that time, including more than 30 who were assigned ICE’s highest security-threat level. Released detainees had criminal records, including homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, armed robbery, kidnapping, smuggling aliens, drug trafficking, burglary, and fraud.
“Today, @AGTennessee revealed hundreds of pages of records showing that ICE knowingly released murderers and rapists from its migrant detention facilities onto American streets. TN obtained the records through a FOIA lawsuit. Our office will keep fighting to hold the federal government accountable for its catastrophic ongoing failure to enforce immigration laws,” Skrmetti declared in a social media post.
Today, @AGTennessee revealed hundreds of pages of records showing that ICE knowingly released murderers and rapists from its migrant detention facilities onto American streets.
TN obtained the records through a FOIA lawsuit.
Our office will keep fighting to hold the federal… pic.twitter.com/Ng17niPtHU
— TN Attorney General (@AGTennessee) October 23, 2024
“The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office will not falter in our efforts to protect Tennesseans from the Administration’s ongoing failure to enforce immigration laws,” Skrmetti vowed.
The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office will not falter in our efforts to protect Tennesseans from the Administration’s ongoing failure to enforce immigration laws.https://t.co/2U9FCz62U8
— TN Attorney General (@AGTennessee) October 24, 2024
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