MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The two county governments that share Adams, Tennessee learned about the federal government's plan to put a $63 million immigration enforcement call center there the same way everyone else did: from the news, Tennessee Lookout reported Friday, August 14, 2026.

A subsidiary of Koniag, an Alaska Native corporation, holds a contract worth up to $63 million to run a 24-hour call center in Adams, a town of roughly 600 people straddling Robertson and Montgomery counties. The center would handle 6,000 to 7,000 daily inquiries from law enforcement agencies with ICE cooperative agreements, and the contract includes provisions for locating unaccompanied migrant children in support of 287(g) agreements between ICE and local law enforcement, per the Lookout.

Montgomery County Mayor Wes Golden said he learned of the contract from media reports on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. “We have our folks looking into it,” he told the Lookout. In Robertson County, property assessor Chris Traughber said there have been “lots of inquiries here but no new information,” and confirmed the county planning department had not been informed.

ICE and Koniag Services did not respond to the Lookout's requests for information. A Koniag senior vice president said the company is “not at liberty to discuss this very recently awarded contract at this time.”

The staffing plans are further along than the local notice. Koniag has posted 29 job openings for senior-level positions requiring federal security clearances, including facility managers and intelligence analysts, according to the Lookout.

Why It Matters for Memphis

The call center is the statewide switchboard for the enforcement architecture whose Memphis end The 901 Report has documented: task force arrests, transfer flights out of a Memphis private terminal, and detainee movements through the Mason, Tennessee facility. A $63 million federal contract that the host counties cannot get answers about is the same transparency question Memphis institutions have faced all year, moved 200 miles up the road.

The Oversight Question

Two county governments say they were not told about a federal facility in their own jurisdiction. Who in the federal government decided local notice was unnecessary, and will ICE publish what the $63 million buys: the site, the staffing, and the call center's role in locating unaccompanied children?

Your city. Your money. Your receipts.