MASON, Tenn. - Just weeks after a chaotic meeting in Mason, Tennessee over a new immigration detention facility, the first detainees have arrived. FOX13 confirmed about two dozen undocumented immigrants are being held at the West Tennessee Detention Facility.

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Mason Mayor Eddie Noeman tells FOX13 detainees started arriving this week, and that there are between "20-25" being held there. Mason town leaders approved opening the detention center last month. During a contentious Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting on Aug. 12, the town’s leaders signed a pair of contracts to convert a closed, private prison into a migrant detention center.

ICE told FOX13 that the facility opened on September 8 a

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