Overview:
Trump official claimed Young helped in comments following the ICE killing in Minneapolis.
The city of Memphis has not collaborated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration, according to Memphis Mayor Paul Young.
Young clarified the point in a Facebook Reel Monday. It came in response to “something that came up over the weekend,” he said. That was U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s public comments in the wake of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
“I’ll point to the city of Memphis, which is where there is a Democrat mayor in place,” Noem said, according to various news accounts. “He worked with us and our federal law enforcement officers, and we saw murder rates drop by 50 percent because of that partnership.
“We’ve seen historic lows in the criminal acts that have happened in that city. We’ve had the same amount of law enforcement officers there, but a very different result because of the leadership in place.
“Last week, ICE did over 2,000 different operations, and we saw people be brought to justice and the American people made safer because of that work. We don’t have this problem (in Memphis).”
Young said the city has worked with the Memphis Safe Task Force “on addressing violent crime.”
“But I wanna be very clear, there has been no collaboration with ICE on immigration,” Young said.
“We know that our Hispanic brothers and sisters of this community have been working really hard. They make up about 9 percent of our population, the fastest-growing population in our community. We want to make sure that as they move about in this community, that they feel safe. So, we have been very clear to have that line in the sand where our officers do not assist on immigration in any way.”