A lawsuit filed by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office has exposed plans by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release illegals into the state, including those convicted of violent crimes, including rape and murder.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced that following the success of the lawsuit, ICE was forced to produce hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed information about the agency’s release of thousands of detained migrants, including dangerous convicted criminals.
The records show that ICE’s plan to release migrants into this State was derailed by pushback from Tennessee’s Governor and U.S. Senators and ultimately stopped through successful litigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and other States.
The information further reveals that although ICE abandoned its failed plan for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee, the agency nonetheless released over 7,000 detainees directly from its Louisiana facilities at that time, including more than 30 who were assigned ICE’s highest security-threat level. Released detainees had criminal records, including homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, armed robbery, kidnapping, smuggling aliens, drug trafficking, burglary, and fraud.