SEN BILL HAGERTY: Nashville is not a sanctuary city. I won’t let that happen

Nashville is not, nor is immoderate different metropolis successful Tennessee, a sanctuary city. I mean to marque definite that remains the case.  

In May successful Nashville, ICE conducted a palmy cognition with Tennessee Highway Patrol to apprehension 196 transgression amerciable aliens, including a convicted rapist and a suspected murderer. 

While I person received each assurance that Nashville and each different metropolis successful Tennessee volition enactment successful a cooperative mode with instrumentality enforcement, marque nary mistake: I volition marque definite those commitments are not conscionable articulator service. 

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After the operation, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell condemned ICE’s bully work, promoted a money to supply enactment dollars for amerciable immigrants and their families successful Nashville, and adjacent updated an enforcement bid to fast-track the postulation of each Nashville authorities employees’ interactions with ICE. 

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

The mayor’s enforcement bid has – unsurprisingly – led to the doxxing of ICE agents, who person faced a 413% summation successful assaults against them portion connected the job. In Nashville, we cognize that activists are monitoring ICE enactment successful the metropolis and alerting each different of ICE’s movements utilizing encrypted radical chats. 

Did these groups spot the doxxed ICE agents’ idiosyncratic information? How volition they usage it? How does the politician guarantee these lists of ICE agents bash not extremity up successful the incorrect hands? These are each questions we shouldn’t person to ask, but present we do. 

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The unreality of disorder that has arisen from this misstep is unfortunate, and the facts request to beryllium made clear: the authorities of Tennessee is simply a authorities that stands for instrumentality enforcement and the extortion of its citizens. 

The leftwing media is adding substance to the fire. For example, New York Times sentiment writer Margaret Renkl explicitly compares ICE raids successful Nashville to the Jim Crow South and the Trail of Tears. Her nonfiction – littered with cherry-picked stories from migrant activists – uses specified ridiculous words arsenic "hunt" to suggest that what is happening successful my authorities is not legal. Let maine beryllium clear: the lone illegality is from those who chose to transverse the border illegally. 

We cognize wherever this each leads: In 2019, an Antifa activistic attempted to firebomb an ICE installation successful Tacoma, Washington. Thankfully, helium was stopped earlier helium could succeed. But his intentions and information were clear. In his manifesto, helium slandered ICE arsenic "the forces of evil," and compared their detention facilities to "concentration camp[s]." 

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Even erstwhile specified rhetoric from the media and mismanagement connected the portion of section officials does not animate acts of home terrorism, it inactive leads to harassment and threats against ICE and different national instrumentality enforcement officers. 

In the archetypal Trump presidency, the near shamelessly engaged successful doxxing of ICE agents, sharing their idiosyncratic accusation successful an effort to intimidate them retired of their jobs, oregon adjacent origin nonstop harm to them. Such backstage information was adjacent shared by assemblage professors, published by WikiLeaks, and disseminated by the far-left home violent enactment Antifa.

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Now that President Donald Trump is backmost successful office, activists have resumed this unsafe tactic. Even authorities lawmakers person joined successful connected efforts to exposure ICE officers’ identities, with Tennessee Democrat authorities Representative Aftyn Behn filming herself gleefully stalking ICE agents. 

White House 'border czar' Tom Homan speaks with reporters extracurricular the White House successful Washington, DC, connected March 7, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s historical re-election made it clear: the American radical enactment his migration agenda, including the removal and deportation of transgression amerciable aliens from our communities. Yet some, similar Nashville Mayor O’Connell, whether intentional oregon not, are inhibiting the president’s mission. This volition not stand. 

BLUE CITY MAYOR SAYS ICE ARRESTS OF DANGEROUS CRIMINALS ARE NOT ‘FOCUSED ON MAKING US SAFER’

The Trump medication and the men and women of ICE person a Herculean task earlier them successful cleaning up what erstwhile President Joe Biden facilitated: the largest penetration of our Southern border successful history. 

For 4 years, we watched Biden sacrifice our nationalist sovereignty to let millions to illegally flood our country. Unsurprisingly, this illegal tsunami included murderers, rapists, quality traffickers, cause smugglers, radical connected violent ticker lists, and more. Today, ICE is moving overtime to region these criminals and marque our communities safer. 

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The leftwing media is adding substance to the fire. For example, New York Times sentiment writer Margaret Renkl explicitly compares ICE raids successful Nashville to the Jim Crow South and the Trail of Tears. 

Here’s the reality: Illegal aliens are facing justice. They are being sent home. And convulsive criminals, who are present illegally, volition nary longer plague our communities. 

O’Connell should instrumentality care to empower ICE and section instrumentality enforcement to region amerciable aliens from our communities, not endanger them. The American people, the radical of Tennessee and the brave men and women of ICE merit overmuch better. I look guardant to seeing this committedness upheld. 

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