NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A state leader is pushing back against Nashville's response to recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton is calling on Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell to rescind an executive order he issued last month.

In May, a coordinated effort between ICE and Tennessee Highway Patrol took "everyone at Metro by surprise," according to the Metro government's legal director. The Department of Homeland Security said the operation ended with 196 people arrested.

To maintain transparency, O'Connell enacted Executive Order 30. That order requires the Metro Nashville Police Department and Metro Council members to document and publish interactions with federal immigration authorities.

Those reports are now public, but early on, i

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