State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) said during a Tuesday podcast appearance that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were engaged in “terror” in Tennessee during their recent enforcement operation that saw nearly 200 illegal immigrants detained.
Jones made the comments on an episode of the “Native Land Pod” series hosted by Angela Rye, a former Executive Director and General Counsel to the Congressional Black Caucus, which was titled “Plantation Politics.”
During the interview, Jones was asked about the recent joint operation between ICE and the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), which resulted in the detention of 196 illegal immigrants in May.
“I mean, what we’re witnessing in my state is terror,” Jones claimed. “Just like Tennessee is the birthplace of the KKK, where masked men used to come in the dark of night and kidnap our people, and we’re seeing masked men in plain clothes with baseball caps going out at night snatching people out of their vehicles, snatching them off the street.”
During the joint enforcement operation, reports indicate that THP pulled over vehicles for normal traffic stops while ICE was nearby, ready to detain drivers or passengers who were in the country illegally.
The Nashville Democrat told Rye, “This is not policing, this is terror. This is not about public safety, this is about terror.”
After Jones compared ICE agents to terrorists and the Ku Klux Klan, the 19th century paramilitary group associated with the Democratic Party, the lawmaker seemed to draw an additional comparison between ICE and the type of oppressive camps created at the instruction of genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler.
Suggesting that many of those detained in May were removed to unknown destinations, Jones floated that some could have been removed to the Florida detention facility popularly called “Alligator Alcatraz.”
He stated that detainees could be, “in Florida at this concentration camp that they call Alligator Alcatraz, but which I call Crocodile Concentration Camp, because that’s what it is and what’s what we’re seeing.”
Jones first rose to prominence in 2023, when his participation in a pro-gun control riot prompted his expulsion from the Tennessee House of Representatives, alongside State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), while State Representative Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) survived the vote.
Both Jones and Pearson were later returned to the State House by county commissions, and later secured reelection to their seats.
Jones was recently blocked form attending a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press conference, which featured Secretary Kristi Noem, and was instead asked to leave the Nashville International Airport ahead of her appearance.
The Democrat was similarly blocked from accessing the press conference where Governor Bill Lee unveiled the Music City Loop, a project to connect downtown Nashville with the airport, which Elon Musk’s Boring Company will fund.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected]
Justin Jones IS a terrorist. Well, at least in his weird world where he gets to make BS, “fake tough guy” political statements while being protected by police. The only difference from Jones and a real world “fighting” terrorist is Justin Jones wouldn’t last a week.
Throw in (or throw out, ha ha) Justin Pearson for good measure.
Jones just wants to do anything that gains the spotlight for himself. He is a dangerous radical.
It might be a great time to look at ELIGIBLITY QUALIFICATIONS to become a Member of the Tennessee General Assembly.
1. At least 35 years old
2. Married with children
3. Employment records
4. Criminal Record
5. Pro American history
6. No Socialist or Communist
7. Civic Involvement
8. No Racism history
Justin was arrested during the Summer of Love for damage to government property.
Of course, our Soros paid DA dropped the charges.
Justin has no real life experience ,jobs or otherwise that would give him any insight into what it’s like to provide for a family. Being a graduate of the Clinton Foundation where hexwas trained & paid to be an anarchist doesn’t count toward maturity or wisdom.
Big mouth, no brains
Jones has made himself a joke. Anyone with a brain can see that he has done NOTHING towards do the job he was elected for. He is just on a hunt at all times for TV time, news coverage.
Justin Jones…Tennessee’s answer to Al. sharpton
Jones should be expelled (again) from the TN House for this. He is a terror-supporting Marxist subversive who is seeking the complete destruction of this nation.