Democratic sheriff nominee takes wait-and-see approach on cooperation with federal immigration
Chief Deputy Sheriff Anthony Buckner is running for sheriff on the 2026 ballot with a call for a new jail that offers rehabilitation, a gang unit that does long-term investigations and a return to community policing. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Anthony Buckner talked about immigration and the Memphis Safe Task Force as well as a new jail in a wide-ranging interview on “Behind The Headlines”.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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