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Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 20, 2022

According to Gov. Bill Lee, federal officials are planning to send “multiple busloads” of ICE detainees from New Orleans to Tennessee, the Tennessean reports. In a release, Lee says he was informed yesterday of the plan to transport “single adult detainees from ICE facilities” to the state as early as this week. He and other state officials, including Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, denounced the plan today and called on the Biden Administration for its reversal. “The Attorney General’s Office joins Governor Lee and our federal delegation in demanding the administration abandon their plan to release detainees into our state,” Skrmetti said in a statement