ICE to pay Nashville ‘a lot of attention’ after mayor decries raids

The Trump administration’s “border czar” said he plans to visit Nashville in the “near future” after Mayor Freddie O’Connell criticized a series of ICE sweeps earlier this month.

Tom Homan, the White House’s executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, told Fox News Tuesday that the Homeland Security Committee is opening a congressional investigation into O’Connell’s response to the raids.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol, in coordination with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, made 468 traffic stops near the city’s immigrant corridor in early May, resulting in nearly 200 arrests.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said roughly half of those detained had some kind of criminal record, including one man who was accused of killing a Nashville restaurant ow