The Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs, which allocates federal funding in Tennessee for crime victims, has eliminated grants to agencies providing legal services to immigrants. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence has long provided legal help to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
Effective June 30, however, the nonprofit’s immigrant legal clinic permanently closed after the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs, which decides how to allocate federal crime victim dollars, ended immigrant legal aid grants…