West Tennessee ICE facility receives first detainees
The Mason, Tennessee, ICE detainment center was approved in August. However, the second vote was contentious and confusing, causing pushback from the ACLU.
Topic: immigrants
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September 2025
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August 2025
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West Tennessee town approves new ICE detention center
In a contentious and confusing meeting Tuesday night, the Mason Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to reopen the 600-bed West Tennessee Detention Facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use for immigrants.
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April 2020
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Our pandemic workforce relies on immigrants
Many of the heroes who are attending to the sick and dying in our hospitals are immigrants: 25% of physicians in the United States are foreign-born, and 1.5 million immigrants are employed as doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
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