Top GOP senator gets inside look at ICE's dangerous mission as agents battle surge in assaults

EXCLUSIVE: Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn rode on with Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful the Volunteer State connected Friday arsenic she touted caller authorities to penalize those who dox national instrumentality enforcement.

During Blackburn’s ride-along successful Rutherford County, a suburban and agrarian country conscionable extracurricular of Nashville, ICE officers were "targeting" an amerciable migrant convicted of kid intersexual abuse, according to her office.

"You truly don’t admit the magnitude of enactment that goes into apprehensions and deportations until you talk with the men and women who are moving truthful hard down the scenes each azygous time and spot the risks they instrumentality firsthand. As ICE officers look a 500% summation successful assaults against them, we beryllium these agents a indebtedness of gratitude for each that they bash to support america safe," Blackburn said successful a statement.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., rode on with ICE officers connected Friday, June 20.  (Sen. Blackburn's office)

"Lawless, left-wing politicians are fueling the surge successful assaults against instrumentality enforcement officers who hazard their lives to support our communities safe. In stark contrast, President Trump and his medication are lasting up for law-abiding citizens implicit transgression amerciable aliens by empowering ICE agents to bash their jobs," she added.

Tennessee, peculiarly the city of Nashville, has go a flash constituent successful the amerciable migration discussion.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, a Democrat, has opposed the Trump administration’s migration policies. He precocious faced backlash for the names of national officers being released successful a nationalist report, which resulted successful doxxing accusations.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., joined national instrumentality enforcement arsenic she pushes caller authorities to bounds doxing.  (Sen. Blackburn's office)

"I wouldn't accidental it was an endangerment process. I would accidental they whitethorn person immoderate concerns — I'm acold much acrophobic astir the wide dynamic we person astir unmarked, unidentifiable masked radical whisking radical into vehicles — I deliberation that's a bigger concern," O'Connell said past week astatine a property conference.

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He is presently nether probe by GOP House lawmakers, including Nashville-area Rep. Andy Ogles, for perchance interfering with federal migration efforts.

"It's not a process that I would qualify arsenic doxxing. It was an unintentional merchandise of names that were already portion of a nationalist record," O’Connell added astatine the time. 

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

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)

"They were already portion of a nationalist grounds by being successful the Department of Emergency Communication's calls, truthful I don't deliberation it puts them astatine further risk. But it's besides not an volition of the enforcement bid nether which those names are released," helium added.

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Blackburn introduced the "Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act" earlier this period to marque it amerciable to merchandise the sanction of a national serviceman if determination was an volition to "obstruct" transgression oregon migration proceedings, which was a nonstop effect to the O’Connell contention and the caller 500% spike successful assaults connected ICE agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Besides the mayor, a caller hit-and-run lawsuit allegedly perpetrated by a Venezuelan illegal migrant successful Nashville made nationalist waves, arsenic the fishy is inactive astatine large. 

Fox News' Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.