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January 30, 2012
TN Lawsuit Against 287(g) Based in State Law Technicalities "Nashville immigration attorney Elliott Ozment filed a lawsuit in January 2011 on behalf of individuals affected by a partnership between the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that allows the sheriff to investigate the immigration status of jail inmates and determine whether to turn them over for federal deportation proceedings," the Tennessean says. "Ozment argues that the 287(g) program, as it is known, violates the 1963 Metro Charter, which stripped the sheriff's office of most of its law enforcement powers but left it in charge of Nashville's jails." |
