(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials under the Biden-Harris administration “knowingly released murderers and rapists from its migrant detention facilities onto American streets,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said when releasing data he obtained through a lawsuit.
“Our office will keep fighting to hold the federal government accountable for its catastrophic ongoing failure to enforce immigration laws,” he said in the social media post .
Skrmetti’s office obtained the records after Gov. Bill Lee first learned in December 2022 that ICE had reached out to Nashville officials in an effort to coordinate the release of large numbers of foreign nationals into the city before the federal public health authority Title 42 ended in May 2023. The city and state requested information from ICE about how many were being sent, from where, what resources were being provided to assist, among other questions. They also submitted questions through Freedom of Information Act requests, didn’t receive the information they requested and later sued to obtain it, Skrmetti said…