With gang violence spreading and deportations rising, Congressman Andy Ogles is demanding an investigation into the Nashville Mayor’s office for allegedly working to block ICE operations and shield criminal illegal immigrants. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.
Chapter 1: What is the investigation into Nashville's mayor's office about?
Chapter 2: How are sanctuary cities impacting ICE operations?
But some so-called sanctuary city officials are working hard to hinder that crackdown. One of those cities is Nashville, and now Congress has opened an investigation into the mayor's office.
You can have a woke mayor who wants to cry and whine in his Cheerios about it, but I'm going to say we're going to stand with the president. We're going to stand with Pam Bondi. We're going to stand with ICE.
I'm executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday, June 1st, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, announced this week that they've launched an investigation into the office of Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell. They claim that the city officials are actively obstructing ICE.
The congressman joins us now. Congressman Ogles, thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely, I appreciate you having me. So you've announced an investigation this week. What exactly are you looking into?
Yeah, well, so what you've seen across the country is an increased activity and deportations by ICE and Homeland Security. And the mayor of Nashville came out with this executive order, and he's requiring law enforcement to report any interactions with federal, so local law enforcement with federal law enforcement. But he's also encouraged citizens or civilians to report
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us on short notice. This is a tough moment, and I am heartbroken that today many of our neighbors in Nashville are experiencing fear over family separation rather than the safety we all deserve.
The trauma inflicted on families is long lasting and I'm doing everything in my power consistent with applicable law to protect anyone who calls Nashville home. What's clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harm.
So there's this community oversight board. He said, hey, if you see Metro Police helping law enforcement, federal law enforcement, we want you to file a complaint against them. So the mayor of Nashville is making local PD, who are just trying to do their jobs, the bad guy.
And the problem with that aside from aiding and abetting and impeding federal law enforcement is we've had a 400% increase in attacks against law enforcement across the country. So when these mayors are making local law enforcement the bad guys, this feeds into that loop where you see more violence against our law enforcement.
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Chapter 3: What actions are Nashville officials taking against ICE?
Chapter 4: What are the consequences of obstructing federal law enforcement?
And as someone who's on the Homeland Security Committee, I just received a classified briefing. And what I can tell you is that MS-13 and Trinidad and Tobago, they're all over the country. They're in Nashville. They're in our small cities like Columbia and Tullahoma.
And so if we don't fight back, if we don't take our cities and our streets back, you're going to wake up and you're going to see those gang members on the street corner in front of your elementary and middle schools, and then it'll be too late.
So we're seeing this across the country. Nashville, obviously a major focus for you being from Tennessee. Have we actually seen officials in Nashville working against ICE, obstructing ICE to thwart their operations?
Absolutely. So that's one of the things we're going to be looking at. So we're looking at the city of Nashville and the mayor to see if there's been actual actions or federal monies that have flowed through the city to illegals. Then also you saw the state rep, Afton Benn, who used her vehicle. She recorded herself. And she put it on social media where she was blocking ICE vehicles.
We got our girl squad and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers. So this is a win. Your favorite blonde state rep, her phone's always at 1%. I think my superlative is most likely to always have her phone at 1%. So, okay, so we're waiting for my phone to charge. Let me send this to Emily and the girl. There we go. Okay. Did he let them go?
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Chapter 5: How is gang violence affecting communities in Nashville?
Chapter 6: What is Congressman Ogles' stance on local law enforcement?
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us on short notice. This is a tough moment, and I am heartbroken that today many of our neighbors in Nashville are experiencing fear over family separation rather than the safety we all deserve.
The trauma inflicted on families is long lasting and I'm doing everything in my power consistent with applicable law to protect anyone who calls Nashville home. What's clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harm.
So there's this community oversight board. He said, hey, if you see Metro Police helping law enforcement, federal law enforcement, we want you to file a complaint against them. So the mayor of Nashville is making local PD, who are just trying to do their jobs, the bad guy.
And the problem with that aside from aiding and abetting and impeding federal law enforcement is we've had a 400% increase in attacks against law enforcement across the country. So when these mayors are making local law enforcement the bad guys, this feeds into that loop where you see more violence against our law enforcement.
And as someone who's on the Homeland Security Committee, I just received a classified briefing. And what I can tell you is that MS-13 and Trinidad and Tobago, they're all over the country. They're in Nashville. They're in our small cities like Columbia and Tullahoma.
And so if we don't fight back, if we don't take our cities and our streets back, you're going to wake up and you're going to see those gang members on the street corner in front of your elementary and middle schools, and then it'll be too late.
So we're seeing this across the country. Nashville, obviously a major focus for you being from Tennessee. Have we actually seen officials in Nashville working against ICE, obstructing ICE to thwart their operations?
Absolutely. So that's one of the things we're going to be looking at. So we're looking at the city of Nashville and the mayor to see if there's been actual actions or federal monies that have flowed through the city to illegals. Then also you saw the state rep, Afton Benn, who used her vehicle. She recorded herself. And she put it on social media where she was blocking ICE vehicles.
We got our girl squad and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers. So this is a win. Your favorite blonde state rep, her phone's always at 1%. I think my superlative is most likely to always have her phone at 1%. So, okay, so we're waiting for my phone to charge. Let me send this to Emily and the girl. There we go. Okay. Did he let them go?
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