Tennessee rep says Nashville mayor's ICE policies amount to 'aiding and abetting illegal immigration'

A Republican lawmaker from Tennessee is calling for a national probe into Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell’s handling of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, adding helium volition not backmost down.

Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., said successful a station connected X that with enactment from the House Judiciary Committee, helium is formally requesting each documents and communications from O’Connell’s bureau pertaining to his alleged extortion of amerciable immigrants.

Specifically, Ogles is requesting documents related to "the amendment of Executive Order 30," which helium referred to arsenic "an outrageous directive requiring Nashville employees and archetypal responders to study each connection with national immigration authorities straight to the mayor."

Ogles besides said helium is requesting immoderate interior discussions oregon documents concerning ICE enforcement actions successful Nashville oregon Davidson County and each correspondence involving Metro employees and affiliated nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) pertaining to the arrests oregon detention of transgression amerciable aliens wrong the metropolis oregon county.

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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) is calling connected national agencies and committees to analyse Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell's alleged obstruction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. (Michael M. Santiago)

Along with his post, Ogles shared a video of his announcement.

"We’ve heard it: the individuals that the politician is lasting with are murderers, rapists, cause traffickers, intersexual predators, kid traffickers…the database goes on," helium said. "Which is wherefore I volition ever basal connected the regularisation of instrumentality and with ICE. And I don’t conscionable basal with ICE; I’ll basal successful beforehand of ICE due to the fact that we the radical person had enough.

"I take my community, my authorities and my household implicit this benignant of nonsense, which is why, owed to the remarks of Freddie O'Connell and the imaginable for aiding and abetting amerciable immigration, the Homeland Security and the Judiciary Committees volition beryllium conducting an probe into the politician of Nashville, his behaviour and whether oregon not national dollars person been utilized successful transgression enterprise," Ogles continued. "I volition not backmost down. I volition not relent, and I volition ever basal with instrumentality enforcement. I privation my community, and I privation my state back."

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Ogles’ announcement comes 10 days aft helium sent a missive urging for an investigation into O’Connell, whom the Trump medication has accused of supporting "pro-illegal policies."

O’Connell’s bureau did not respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for remark connected the matter.

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

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents detain an migrant connected October 14, 2015 successful Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

A 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."

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

O’Connell besides wrote a missive to the metropolis astir the ICE arrests.

"Our apical precedence is keeping radical safe, and we’re profoundly acrophobic that what look to beryllium national actions are making that harder," O’Connell wrote. "Overnight, we recognize that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents detained radical during enforcement actions successful Middle Tennessee. As we larn more, I privation to beryllium clear: No [Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD)] unit were progressive successful past night’s enforcement action."

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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. (Getty Images)

He added that the city’s constabulary section does not person national migration authority, nor are its members trained to behaviour migration enforcement.

O’Connell besides said the police department lacks entree to national migration databases.

"This benignant of national enforcement enactment is not focused connected making america safer and leaves radical successful our assemblage fearing immoderate enactment with instrumentality enforcement erstwhile determination is simply a transgression occurring," helium added. "We volition beryllium seeking the names of those detained."

DHS said the Nashville cognition resulted successful the arrests of a convicted kid enactment predator, an alleged subordinate of the convulsive Venezuelan pack Tren de Aragua, an idiosyncratic convicted of aggravated battle and aggregate amerciable aliens connected cause charges.

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"The Nashville Mayor should privation these transgression amerciable aliens disconnected American streets," DHS posted connected X. "Attacks and demonization of our brave instrumentality enforcement is wrong. ICE officers are present facing a 413% summation successful assaults. President Trump campaigned connected migration enforcement, the American radical voted for it, and DHS is delivering."

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.