On May 9th, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell Executive Order 30 (amended) to require all metro city employees, including police officers, to report any communications they have with federal immigration authorities directly to his office within one business day.
Each person who communicates with federal immigration authorities would then have a notice of their communications posted on a public website run by the Mayor’s Office of New Americans.
IV. Designated Person: Each Metro Department/Office shall designate one person who shall be responsible for collecting and transmitting Immigration Communications to the Mayor’s Office of New Americans in accordance with this Executive Order. The Mayor’s Office shall seek transparency by posting such reports that it receives pursuant to paragraph III above on the website for the Office of New Americans.
The obvious reason for this is to create a chilling effect in which all metro city employees are terrified to talk to federal immigration authorities for fear of retaliation by the mayor’s office, retaliation by other city officials, or retribution by violent left-wing activists living in Nashville.
Congressman Andy Ogles of the House Committee on Homeland Security says his committee, along with the House Judiciary Committee, is launching investigations.
Note that the Metropolitan Government of Nashville is a consolidated city-county government entity. It includes the entire city of Nashville, as well as everything else in Davidson County.
