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The Democratic mayor of Tennessee’s largest city, who has been accused of obstructing federal immigration efforts, defended his office’s decision to publicly dox the names of immigration officers.Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s defense came even after the names of federal immigration officials were removed from a public immigration report detailing a month’s worth of immigration-related interactions between local police and federal immigration authorities.Initially, the public report detailed immigration officers’ names, but following backlash over the move the names were taken down. “I wouldn’t say it was an endangerment process, I would say they may have some concerns – I’m far more concerned about the overall dynamic we have about unmarked, unidentifiable masked people whisking people into vehicles – i think that’s a bigger concern,” O’Connell, who is currently under investigation by GOP House lawmakers for potentially interfering with federal immigration efforts, said during a press conference with reporters. O’Connell did add the move was not “intentional,” but then quickly followed up that he wouldn’t have described what happened as “doxing” in the first place. “It’s not a process that I would characterize as doxing.It was an unintentional release of names that were already part of a public record,” he told reporters.
“They were already part of a public record by being in Department of Emergency Communication’s calls, so I don’t think it puts them at additional risk.But it’s also not an intention of the executive order under which those names are released.”Fox News Digital reached out to O’Connell’s office for comment but did not hear back in time for publication. Larry Adams, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Field Office Director, told local Fox affiliate in Nashville WZTV that ICE agents disagree that making their names public is not a risk, noting their faces ...