ICE has made presence felt in Memphis — out of national spotlight
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers guard an entrance of the Federal Building June 10 in Los Angeles while protesters rally during a demonstration in response to a series of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids throughout the country. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Memphis hasn’t seen the high-profile immigration raids or roundups by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security other cities have seen.
But there has been a steady stream of smaller, lower-profile interactions this year.
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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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