July 17, 2008





Officials Push For Nashville Immigration Judge
posted July 16, 2008

Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker along with Reps. Jim Cooper and Marsha Blackburn today joined Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall in urging federal officials from the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to install an immigration judge in Nashville to speed up the process and reduce the cost of removing illegal immigrants, such as the approximately 700 processed since April 2007 who were arrested for at least one serious crime such as homicide, robbery, aggravated assault or burglary.

“Sheriff Hall and the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office have done a better job than any other county east of Phoenix, Arizona with this new program to remove criminal illegal immigrants, processing more than 3,500 since April 2007,â€