U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, photographed during a May dragnet in South Nashville. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
For nearly a decade, Catholic Charities of East Tennessee has relied on federal funding to provide legal aid to victims of elder abuse, domestic violence and child sexual and physical abuse.
But, earlier this summer, the Knoxville nonprofit was put on notice by the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs: it could no longer receive public crime victim funding if the crime victims being served were also immigrants…