Protestors made “good trouble” outside Mason Town Hall Tuesday evening as town leaders debated and finally approved a contract to re-open a prison facility there as a detention center for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Members of Indivisible Memphis were there. Here’s what they had to say about the situation:
“Something is fishy. Something is off,” the group said on Facebook. “And we are not finished in Mason. We hold all elected officials accountable. Financial disclosures are not available for those elected officials in Mason. And we are going to find out why.”
Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Carnita Atwater was at the protest, too.
“When I fight, I fight for all Tennesseans,” Atwater said in a Facebook post. “We are Tennessee strong. I am in Mason, Tennessee protesting against the ICE detention center. No CoreCivic in Mason.”