Tennessee AG exposes ICE's plan to release illegal immigrants convicted of dangerous crimes into state

The Tennessee Attorney General's Office announced that efforts by nan politician and different authorities lawmakers were successful and yet stopped a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) scheme to merchandise forbidden immigrants, including convicted criminals, into nan state. 

State Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Wednesday that aft a suit was revenge by nan AG’s office, ICE was forced to nutrient antecedently undisclosed accusation astir nan agency’s planned merchandise of thousands of detained migrants, including convicted criminals. 

The agency said it obtained hundreds of pages of documents that shed ray connected national authorities’ since-abandoned scheme to carrier perchance thousands of "single adult" migration detainees into Tennessee.

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced that, aft a successful suit by nan Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, ICE was forced to nutrient antecedently undisclosed accusation astir nan agency’s merchandise of thousands of detained migrants, including vulnerable convicted criminals.  (Jon Michael Raasch/Fox News Digital/AP Photo/George Walker IV)

The findings originate from a 2022 find by nan governor's agency erstwhile it learned that ICE had been coordinating pinch local immigration-rights groups and Nashville officials to merchandise large numbers of detainees into nan authorities earlier nan anticipated termination of nan federal government’s Title 42 nationalist wellness order.

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ICE was forced to nutrient antecedently undisclosed accusation astir nan agency’s planned merchandise of thousands of detained migrants, including convicted criminals. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

"The national government’s azygous astir important occupation is to keep vulnerable group retired of our country, and alternatively it has fto killers and rapists illegally transverse our separator and locomotion free connected our streets," Skrmetti said successful a statement. 

The records show that ICE’s plan to merchandise migrants into Tennessee was derailed after pushback from Republican Gov. Bill Lee and GOP senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty and was yet stopped through successful litigation by nan authorities lawyer general's office. 

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The agency said that nan accusation further revealed that though ICE abandoned its grounded scheme for nan wide merchandise of detainees into Tennessee, nan agency still released complete 7,000 detainees directly from its Louisiana sites astatine that time, including much than 30 who were assigned ICE’s highest security-threat level.

Central American migrants transverse a obstruction on nan confederate separator obstruction from Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, into nan U.S. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)

According to nan records, released detainees besides had criminal records that included murder, sexual assault, aggravated battle pinch a weapon, equipped robbery, kidnapping, smuggling aliens, supplier trafficking, burglary and fraud.

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"While nan urgent activity to hole our broken migration strategy continues successful Washington, my agency will support fighting for transparency and accountability," Skrmetti said. 

This comes aft nan Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it is recommending much than 100 migrants that it has identified arsenic having imaginable ties to a convulsive Venezuelan pack beryllium put connected an FBI watchlist aft nan agency flagged much than 600 pinch imaginable ties overall.

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However, officials said they do not judge that each 600 migrants will beryllium confirmed pack members and that galore will beryllium relatives, victims aliases witnesses to crimes by nan notorious pack members.

ICE did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw contributed to this report.