Immigration arrest numbers no longer part of Memphis Safe Task Force data releases
The Memphis Safe Task Force appears to no longer be reporting the number of immigration-related arrests made as part of the federal-state-local law enforcement surge. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The federal agency leading the Memphis Safe Task Force appears to no longer be reporting the number of immigration-related arrests made as part of the federal-state-local law enforcement surge.
As recently as Oct. 16, The Daily Memphian was receiving the number of “administrative,” or immigration-related, arrests from a U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson, along with arrest totals for other categories.
That day, task force officers had made a cumulative 181 administrative arrests since the task force began Sept. 29, accounting for about 19% of the task force’s total arrests at the time.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
Bill Dries
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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