It seems to me there are three kinds of people. Some people, a minority probably, would hide Anne Frank. Some people, one also hopes a minority, would call the Gestapo. And a third group, probably a majority, would do their best not to get involved.
ICE and the Tennessee Highway Patrol began pulling people over in the Latin section of Nashville on May 3. In Nashville people and groups are fighting back.
The Tennessee Immigrants and Refugee Rights Coalition is posting rights of immigrants on social media and how to respond when taken by ICE.
The American Muslim Advisory Council and the Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors offered a rights workshop for immigrants planning to travel.
The Southern Christian Coalition provides bystander training for how people can help when they see ICE taking people away.
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee has established the Belonging Fund to support agencies that give emergency assistance to families who are affected by ICE arrests.
One organizer said the immigrants who taken are the most visible. They grow and process the food, stock the stores, wash the dishes in the restaurants where we eat. They are the guys who pour the concrete, put up the drywall, lay down the roof shingles, clean the office buildings.
These are also the people about whom Trump said “No, they’re not humans. They’re animals.”
Now some of you will argue “Well, we aren’t killing them.” Do you know what happens to them? What if they are put in a prison in El Salvador? In many cases we don’t know what happens to them after the thugs in masks and unmarked vans speed off with them. Perhaps you’d like to ask the ICE agents.
Some information for this post is from Margaret Renkl, “The Profound Inhumanity of the ICE Raids, New York Times, (May 23, 2025), p. A20.
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