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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 10, 2025

A government contracting document outlines plans to open a national call center in the greater Nashville area to coordinate the tracking and deportation of unaccompanied immigrant children, according to the Nashville Scene. The request for information, issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), describes a 24-hour operation expected to handle 6,000 to 7,000 calls per day. The call center is part of the Trump administration’s push to expand 287(g) agreements, which allow state and local agencies to cooperate with ICE and exercise limited immigration enforcement authority. Nashville ended its participation in the program more than a decade ago, but this year Tennessee lawmakers created incentives for communities to join, and a special session approved a centralized immigration enforcement division.