SCOOP: Top congressional committees launch probe into Nashville mayor accused of blocking ICE

FIRST ON FOX: Two almighty committees successful the House of Representatives are opening an probe into different Democratic authoritative accused of blocking federal immigration authorities.

House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., is starring a probe into Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell alongside Nashville-area Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn, Fox News Digital learned Friday.

Ogles had been petitioning leaders for weeks to look into O’Connell aft the Democratic person publically denounced Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations successful his metropolis and signed an enforcement bid aimed astatine tracking ICE movements successful the area.

The probe is being supported by the House Judiciary Committee, which is led by Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., seat of the subcommittee for migration enforcement.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green is co-leading a probe into Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, right. (Getty Images)

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"The Committee connected the Judiciary and the Committee connected Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives are conducting oversight of authorities and section jurisdictions that endanger American communities done efforts aimed astatine thwarting the enactment of national migration officials," the 4 leaders wrote successful a missive to O’Connell.

"While the authorities of Tennessee has outlawed sanctuary policies, caller actions from your office endanger to chill migration enforcement successful the City of Nashville and Davidson County. Accordingly, we constitute to petition accusation astir however your caller actions, including a directive to Nashville and Davidson County employees to disclose their communications with national migration officials, affects the robust enforcement of migration law."

The lawmakers said O’Connell’s enforcement order, which mandated that authorities employees study interactions with national migration authorities, "could person a chilling effect connected the quality of section instrumentality enforcement to pass freely and candidly with national migration employees."

"In fact, your main lawyer precocious admitted that it was an ‘open question’ whether an idiosyncratic could legally ‘announce successful beforehand that there’s an impending enforcement activity,’" they wrote. 

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Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell criticized ICE raids successful Nashville, Tennessee, saying they are not focused connected making the metropolis safer, but alternatively permission the assemblage fearing instrumentality enforcement interaction. (Getty Images)

"This statement, erstwhile viewed successful discourse of your bid requiring each Metro law-enforcement officers to study astir communications with ICE personnel, raises the imaginable that Metro employees whitethorn usage nonpublic accusation to pass transgression aliens of planned ICE enforcement operations. In different words, determination is the existent imaginable that your Executive Order could person the effect of diminishing ICE enforcement operations."

It comes aft ICE agents moving with the Tennessee Highway Patrol arrested astir 200 radical the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said were amerciable immigrants – galore of them criminals with pack affiliations oregon different sordid pasts.

The DHS quality merchandise targeted O'Connell by sanction implicit comments helium made successful aboriginal May. "What's wide contiguous is that radical who bash not stock our values of information and assemblage person the authorization to origin heavy assemblage harm."

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., is starring a probe into Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell. (AP Photo)

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After the arrests, O'Connell signed an enforcement bid aimed astatine tracking peoples' interactions with national migration authorities, according to WSMV4.

He said of ICE's enactment successful his city, "It’s important for america to get this right, and it’s precise frustrating to spot a nonaccomplishment successful the process."

O’Connell besides helped motorboat the Nashville government’s nonprofit, "The Belonging Fund," to assistance amerciable immigrants wage for urgent attraction needs. The fund’s website states that "donations to the money are made imaginable solely by idiosyncratic donors and backstage organizations - nary authorities dollars are included. That means nary payer dollars are being utilized successful the medication oregon organisation of this fund."

Republicans, however, person questioned whether that is true.

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"The recipients of these funds are untraceable, and the intent seems crystal clear: assistance amerciable foreigners evade the law," Ogles told Fox News Digital. "I garbage to beryllium backmost portion our communities are overrun — portion our neighborhoods are destroyed and our daughters are assaulted. And I doubly garbage to enactment soundless portion bluish metropolis mayors assistance and abet this invasion."

O’Connell is present 1 of respective Democratic leaders locked successful an migration combat with the Trump administration.

House Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was charged by the Justice Department with assaulting an serviceman aft she and 2 different House Democrats forced their mode into a Newark ICE detention center, charges McIver has dismissed arsenic political.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Nashville mayor’s bureau for remark connected the letter.