Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 100 people in Memphis, the largest raid in the city’s history, according to local immigrant rights groups. One raid took place at a bar in which ICE rolled up with a fleet of rented buses at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning. Officers were allegedly intimidating witnesses by demanding they delete recordings and shining lights into people’s cameras. Memphis Mayor Paul Young and others condemned the raid and its part in President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
“When we say this administration is trying to reshape our nation in their narrow white nationalist vision, this is what it looks like: disappearing our families, neighbors, friends and co-workers in the night with no regard for the devastation they leave behind,” Lisa Sherman Luna, director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, told local WLPN news.
