Marianna Bacallao
Reporter at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)
Reporter covering the statehouse for @WPLN, Nashville’s @NPR station. Previously @wvikfm @politicsgpb @gpbmacon (she/her)🎙✨🇨🇺💖💜💙
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5 days ago |
wpln.org | Marianna Bacallao
Two U.S congressional committees are lookinginto Nashville’s response to federal immigration activity, alleging that Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s policies “threaten to chill immigration enforcement” in the city. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Security Committee have asked for documents related to the mayor’s response after Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed a week-long operation in Nashville’s immigrant corridor last month.
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1 week ago |
wpln.org | Marianna Bacallao
The Sunday before the Tennessee legislature voted to pass a sweeping immigration law, state Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, walked out of his home church before the service began. During the pre-service announcements at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Matt Crawford criticized the end of sanctuary policies for churches, which allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make arrests inside places of worship.
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1 week ago |
wpln.org | Marianna Bacallao
The Trump administration’s “border czar” said he plans to visit Nashville in the “near future” after Mayor Freddie O’Connell criticized a series of ICE sweeps earlier this month. Tom Homan, the White House’s executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, told Fox News Tuesday that the Homeland Security Committee is opening a congressional investigation into O’Connell’s response to the raids.
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1 month ago |
wpln.org | Marianna Bacallao
Less than 48 hours after federal immigration agents began arresting and detaining drivers in Nashville’s immigrant corridor, Ingrid Martínez’s mom was taken into custody. “I didn’t know that after five minutes of barely being with her, I wasn’t going to be able to see her anymore,” Martínez said. Her mother is just one of nearly 100 Nashvillians detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the past few days. The raids on South Nashville roads began late Saturday night.
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1 month ago |
wpln.org | Marianna Bacallao
A Metro Nashville police whistleblower has been indicted for stealing documents related to the Covenant School shooting, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. TBI agents arrested retired Lt. Garet Davidson on Tuesday after a nearly year-long investigation. Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk authorized the investigation last June when the Metro Nashville Police Department first alleged Davidson could’ve leaked pages of the Covenant School assailant’s journal to the Tennessee Star.
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Nashville families impacted by a series of ICE raids in the past few days still don’t know where their loved ones are. Lawyers are having similar problems finding those detained. https://t.co/KKfxae8sCI
A Nashville police whistleblower has been indicted over documents related to the Covenant School shooting. MNPD alleged that the former officer leaked the assailant's journal last year — after he claimed the department had a pattern of discrimination. https://t.co/kebxxYGScX
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell is decrying a large-scale ICE raid on the city's immigrant neighborhoods. State lawmakers have limited how he can respond, after years of rising tension between Nashville Democrats and Tennessee Republicans. https://t.co/QXm92hwbYV