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Last spring, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Tennessee Highway Patrol broadly targeted Nashville’s Latino population through a six-night frenzy of more than 600 traffic stops in the city’s immigrant-rich neighborhoods, profiling and often demeaning the subjects of the stops.
An analysis of immigration records and more than 50 hours of footage contradicts law enforcement arrest statistics and claims that the operation was about targeting criminals to improve public safety, showing fewer arrests than reported by ICE and a pattern of profiling suspected immigrants…