House Speaker Cameron Sexton (Photo: John Partipiro)

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton has publicly called on Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell to withdraw an executive order requiring city emergency personnel to report interactions they have made within 24 hours.

“Metro refused to support federal agents with ICE, but decided to escalate that by forcing all employees to act as their older brother,” Sexton posted on social media platform X on Thursday.

“Now it’s time to withdraw my brother’s executive order and return to normal communication with state and federal authorities,” Sexton’s post read. Sexton tagged Tennessee Rep. Mark Greene, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathon Skulmetti and Homeland Security’s Department of Christa Noem with his posts.

Sexton’s Post is the latest in a string of public criticism since last week targeting O’Connell, the Democrat who leads Tennessee’s most populous city, which also serves as a seat at a GOP-controlled general meeting.

Last week, Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogres accused the mayor of obstructing immigration and customs enforcement work (ICE) officials.

The Ogles anniversary press conference followed Trump administration officials’ appearances on conservative television shows to slam the mayor, following O’Connell.

White House “border emperor” Tom Homan appeared on Fox News and threatened to be “a zone full” with immigration enforcement efforts in retaliation over O’Connell’s comments about joint enforcement action between the Tennessee Highway Patrol and immigration and customs enforcement agents.

Subsequently, Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public relations for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, accused O’Connell of not having legal status and “doxx” immigration enforcement agents of “doxx” and “doxx” in a video featuring Newsmax, and posted it on the agency’s official X account.

Last Thursday, two Republican-led U.S. House committees launched an investigation into the responses of the mayors of Nashville to federal immigration enforcement efforts.

A letter sent Thursday by the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committee requested a series of documents from O’Connell by June 12th. The letter denounced the mayor of conduct “threatening to freeze immigration enforcement in Nashville and Davidson County.”

Accusations against O’Connell Center regarding the mayor’s official statement condemning Nashville immigrant sweep – Long-standing Presidential Order Requiring city departments to report interactions between the mayor and the mayor’s office with immigration officials.

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“What’s clear today is that people who don’t share safety and community values ​​have the authority to cause harm to the deep community,” O’Connell said at the time.

“Their approach isn’t our understanding of what Nashville looks like to all of us, we are grateful for our community partners who welcome all of our residents,” he said.

O’Connell also issued a revision of the existing executive order in early May amid largely incarcerated immigrants, requiring that all interactions between city officials and federal immigration officials be reported within 24 hours.

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The order requires that all emergency situations and some non-emergency city agencies and officials report these interactions to the mayor’s new and indigenous American offices. This is a department created to promote civic engagement.

That department An interaction summary posted a spreadsheet on its website.

In the first public post, three federal immigrant employees were identified by their names, and one was identified in a post that was careless in her name, the mayor’s office later said.

“It is not a normal practice to include an individual’s name in an EO30 (executive order) report. Names that were incorrectly included have been removed,” a statement from the mayor’s office last week said.

Requests for comment from O’Connell’s office regarding Sexton’s remarks were not immediately returned Thursday.