by Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart:
Nashville’s pro-illegal alien Democrat Mayor Freddie O’Connell signed an executive order (EO) that would require the city’s police department to inform his “Office of New Americans” about any planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in the city.
The radical, left-wing mayor blasted traffic stops by ICE and the Tennessee State Troopers in South Nashville last week that resulted in more than 100 people taken into custody, many on immigration charges. O’Connell called the actions an “act of terror” and insisted the illegal aliens taken into custody were Nashville’s “citizens.”
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The mayor amended executive order 30, an older order titled Communications Between Federal Immigration Authorities and the Metropolitan Government, to require city fire, police, and any other department ICE has been working with to tell his pro-illegal alien activist department about upcoming ICE actions.
The updated EO also requires communication between federal agencies and “Metro non-emergency services department or office” to be reported to the mayor’s office, according to the Tennessee Star.
The mayor acted after news broke that information about last week’s massive traffic stop program had not been quickly sent up the chain to the mayor’s office. In particular, ICE had requested Nashville Emergency Services to increase patrols two days before the traffic stops were initiated and had also asked them to refrain from informing the Nashville Police Department (NPD) about the traffic stops until the morning it began. Pro-migrant groups were furious that the NPD was not informed in a timelier manner because it left the activists no time to initiate countermeasures.
The mayor’s new order will require all city departments to immediately inform his pro-illegal alien activist department about any and all communications with federal immigration agencies.
Just after the traffic stops, O’Connell called ICE “terrorists” and claimed that illegal aliens are Nashville “citizens.”
“The trauma inflicted on families is long-lasting, and I’m doing everything in my power consistent with applicable law to protect anyone who calls Nashville home,” O’Connell told the media in the aftermath of the traffic stops. “What’s clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harm.”
