Nashville, Tennessee – At the age of 80, Nashville, Lynn McFarland of Tennessee, it is not easy.
She has technically retired, but spends three days a week, several hours per day, packing and food -filled boxes and families of families of other basic needs. Unlocked immigrants Live in Nashville. Some are very afraid to leave their homes.
She speculates that she saves about 25 boxes every week. He is one of the few dozen such volunteers in the city.
“I can’t really appreciate how much they are afraid because I don’t think I am ever scared,” Macfarland told CBS News.
He said that from the families “most” provides food, which was a member of the family who was detained or deported.
According to Ice’s online database, the US immigration and customs enforcement made about 1,000 daily arrests of unspecified immigrants in June. Nevertheless, this is only one-third of the Trump administration 3,000 daily target Arrest.
Republican State Sen Jack Johnson told CBS News, “Our law enforcement officers in Tennessee are committed to finding you, catching you and getting out of our community and our country.” “… If you are illegally in the country, I think you should be worried.”
Internal government data received by CBS News The show ice is holding around 59,000 prisoners, out of which there is no criminal record of 47%.
This is the reason that a Venezuela person living in Tennessi told CBS News that he was nervous.
“I had never had an issue with the law, never,” the man said, to say that he “never got traffic tickets.”
He asked CBS News to blur his face and his family members. In May, he was detained by Homeland Security Agents when he showed an immigration hearing in the person. He spent about a month inside an ice detention facility in Louisiana.
He said he was eventually released by ICE, but his fate in the US is still not clear despite temporarily acquiring a protected position when he crossed the border in 2021, and later, a work permit. He also has a one -year -old child, born in the US in May, in the Supreme Court. Government This will allow the Trump administration to stop the TPS program for Venezuela.
“I think all sides are afraid,” McFarland said. “I think we are afraid that we do not know who is next, and we know that will be next.”
