A local activist group has claimed the federal deployment of the Memphis Safe Task Force has resulted in increased immigration enforcement, with individuals "snatched up" by federal authorities, who announced on Friday that 150 arrests were made during the first week of their deployment in Memphis. 

The co-founder of Vecindarios 901, an activist group with a hotline to report federal immigration enforcement, told NewsChannel 3 on Thursday that the Memphis Safe Task Force prompted, "calls about people that have been snatched up by ICE."

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