Obvious to anyone with a shred of sound moral judgement, the ongoing nationwide mass deportation campaign, ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the administration of President Donald Trump, is a deeply inhumane endeavor fueled by blind bigotry and willful ignorance.
Since the president took office in January 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, has claimed to deport 3 million undocumented immigrants, whether through forced removal or self-deportation.
Operating under DHS, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, tripled its immigrant arrest numbers from 2024 — with 321,701 in 2025. That same year, more than 8,100 immigrants were detained in Tennessee, doubled from 2024. It is unknown how many of these detentions resulted in deportations.
In Hamilton County in 2025, more than 500 immigrants were arrested and transferred to ICE.
That’s millions of people nationwide, thousands in Tennessee and hundreds in Hamilton County senselessly ripped from their communities and families.