immigrants

A naturalized citizen was inspired to run for the Kentucky House a day after GOP bills were filed to ban immigrants from public office, saying it’s “not the time to sit on the sidelines.”

A Republican lawmaker has filed two bills designed to keep naturalized Americans and those with dual citizenship from serving in local or state elected offices in Kentucky.

A DEA agent used a Louisville Metro police officer's login credentials to search the city's license plate reader database using immigration-related terms.

Immigrants who had received letters inviting them to a citizenship ceremony in downtown Louisville were turned away at the door Thursday. All are from countries deemed "high-risk" by President Donald Trump.

The volunteer group, Vecindarios 901, responded to 3-5 calls each day about immigration enforcement activities in Memphis during the first Trump administration. Now it gets up to 140 calls daily.

A Republican state representative plans to file legislation that would require all Kentucky police agencies to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a program that gives local officers some power to enforce federal immigration law.

Tennessee’s full embrace of Trump’s immigration policies is forcing people like Felipe Mendez, who came to Nashville looking for work, to return home to countries with little opportunity.

A Tennessee law that criminalizes housing immigrants without legal status could apply even if the person being housed has citizenship.

Scores of Tennessee nonprofit agencies are now contending with a flurry of directives from state and federal officials about who they can and cannot serve as the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration reshapes crime victim funding.

A small town in rural Tennessee will soon be the site of a privately-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.