ICE Targets Traffic Courts Across Tennessee
Once immigrants plead guilty to a traffic violation, they can be deported.
ICE agents arrested 7 undocumented people when they showed up for traffic court in Robertson County. Two mothers were arrested along with others
Photographs by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout
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