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Local immigrants fear impact of new state law, but say Young is listening

When a group of immigrant rights advocates walked through Cooper-Young on April 15 to protest a new state law, Memphis police responded by driving their vehicles into the crowd, sometimes coming within inches of marchers.  Sirens blared in Spanish and English, saying, “You must leave the immediate vicinity,” and threatening, “You may be arrested.”  The […]