Immigration and Customs Enforcement

As federal immigration policies spark protests across the country, Kentucky GOP lawmakers filed at least five bills designed to encourage or require more local and state participation in immigration enforcement.

Bowling Green and Paducah are two of the sites where protesters gathered to denounce the killing of a Minnesota woman who was shot to death by a ICE agent.

Protesters marched through the streets of downtown Louisville on Thursday evening from Metro Hall to a nearby federal customs and immigration office for a moment of silence.

The Louisville police chief wants to know if an officer improperly gave federal agents his login credentials for the city's license plate surveillance database.

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.

Louisville Metro Police collect data through license plate readers and share it with thousands of law enforcement agencies.

Data from the study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900.

Christian County’s Fiscal Court authorized the local jail to implement health services Tuesday that will allow the facility to house up to 100 detainees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.