U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Tennessee Highway Patrol officers photographed during a May dragnet in South Nashville. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Shelby County Sheriff’s officers will start enforcing immigration law in Memphis as part of a deal reached with Tennessee and federal officials, a move critics say will increase fear in the Hispanic community.
Deputies will serve as warrant officers on immigration cases under the agreement, documents show, potentially increasing their role in the Memphis Safe Task Force and the Trump administration’s national immigrant sweep…