
Sarah Grace Taylor
State Reporter at Nashville Banner
Back home covering TN politics for @nashvillebanner. Previously at POLITICO, Seattle Times, Chattanooga TFP.
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1 week ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Sarah Grace Taylor
Rep. Andy Ogles announced that a pair of Congressional committees will investigate Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell in response to O’Connell’s disapproval of recent immigration raids in the city. During a rare local press availability on Monday, Ogles, whose Congressional district includes parts of Nashville, accused O’Connell of “aiding and abetting illegal immigration” and protecting violent criminals.
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3 weeks ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Sarah Grace Taylor
Staff of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission were informed this week that they would be laid off ahead of the dissolution of the commission, despite being told their jobs would transfer to a new department.
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1 month ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Sarah Grace Taylor
In five days of swarming state roads to find undocumented immigrants, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said it has made 468 immigration-probing traffic stops as of early Thursday, resulting in nearly 100 U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions.
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1 month ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Sarah Grace Taylor
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and federal immigration officials descended upon Nashville’s predominantly Latino neighborhoods in the wee hours of Sunday morning, making around 150 traffic stops, detaining an unknown number of people and quickly bussing some to out-of-state immigration centers.
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1 month ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Sarah Grace Taylor
Tuesday night, the Tennessee General Assembly adjourned for the year, more or less marking the halfway point of a two-year legislative session. At this juncture, some of the most controversial bills around issues like immigration and public safety are waiting to be reprised early next year, while other proposals have been irreversibly shot down or sent to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. Below is a summary of where bills previously covered by the Banner stand.
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