A government contracting document details plans to open a national call center in the greater Nashville area to coordinate efforts to track unaccompanied immigrant children and deport them. The request for information, issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, describes a round-the-clock operation that will receive and process 6,000 to 7,000 calls per day.

The call center is part of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to expand the adoption of 287(g) agreements, which allow state and local agencies to coordinate with ICE and grants a degree of immigration enforcement authority. The 287(g) program has been criticized for eroding trust between citizens and police and for encouraging racial profiling and civil rights abuse .

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