The $63 Million ICE Call Center Is Coming to Nashville, and Nashville Says It Has Not Been Told the Plan

Federal contract records show ICE moved its planned 24/7 national enforcement call center from Adams, Tennessee to Nashville's Donelson neighborhood. The $63 million contractor will support local police holding 287(g) agreements and track locations of unaccompanied minors. The mayor's office says it still lacks a consistent picture of what is planned.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Eight days after The 901 Report reported that the Tennessee counties hosting a planned $63 million ICE call center found out from the news, the federal contract records show the facility is not coming to them at all.

Updates in the federal contract database USASpending.gov show Immigration and Customs Enforcement relocated the planned facility from Adams, Tennessee to Nashville's Donelson neighborhood near the airport, the Tennessee Lookout reported Thursday, August 20, 2026. The $63 million contract, awarded in August 2026, is held by Alaska-based Koniag Government Services. The Lookout first documented the Adams plan from contract records on August 11, 2026.

The contracted functions are specific: a 24/7 support center for local law enforcement agencies holding 287(g) agreements with ICE, whose staff will analyze data, perform database cross-checks, confirm enforcement actions in the field, track the locations of unaccompanied minors, and develop technologies enhancing ICE coordination with local police and sheriff's departments, per the contract documents as reported by the Lookout.

What is missing is any official account. A Koniag spokesperson said the company is "not at liberty to discuss" contract details or the precise location. ICE did not respond to the Lookout's inquiries. And the host city's government says it is still trying to find out what is being built: Nashville's mayor's office, through spokesperson Andrea Fanta, said it is still working to obtain "a consistent depiction of what is planned."

The pattern holds across the move. The counties that were going to host it learned from a news report. The city that will host it says it still lacks a consistent picture of what is planned. At no point has the government explained the facility to the place it is being built.

Advocates are not waiting for the details. Lisa Sherman Luna of the Tennessee Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights characterized the plan as "trying to set up shop in middle Tennessee to facilitate this terror on a massive scale," per the Lookout. That is the advocacy view; the operational view has simply not been offered, which is itself the story. A $63 million federal enforcement hub is being sited in a major American city on the record of a procurement database.

Why It Matters for Memphis

The center's stated function is supporting 287(g) agreements statewide, which makes its reach a Tennessee question, not a Nashville one: whichever local agencies hold or adopt those agreements plug into this infrastructure. Memphis has also seen federal enforcement operate locally ahead of public explanation, and the procurement-first, explanation-later pattern documented here is the one to watch for.

The Transparency Gap

Who holds the authority here. This is a federal facility on a federal contract, and no Tennessee body approved it or can stop it. ICE is the contracting agency; Koniag Government Services is the contractor. The host city has zoning and permitting authority over a building but no say over the function inside it, and by its own account has not been told what that function is. The local law enforcement agencies the center would serve enter 287(g) agreements individually, each a separate decision by a sheriff or chief, which means the center's reach into any given Tennessee county is set county by county rather than by anyone in Nashville. There is no single body a resident can ask.

What has not been disclosed. ICE has issued no public statement on the facility's functions, staffing, or opening date. The contractor declines to discuss the contract or confirm the precise location. The specific address in Donelson is unstated. What data the center will hold on Tennessee residents, including the unaccompanied minors whose locations the contract says it will track, has not been described anywhere but in the contract language itself. Why the site moved from Adams to Nashville has not been explained. And Nashville's own government says it has not been given a consistent account.

Why the gap matters, and what we are requesting. Twice now, the public record of a $63 million federal enforcement facility in Tennessee has been a procurement database entry, and twice the community receiving it has learned from reporters. A contract database is a legitimate record, but it is not an explanation, and it is not accountable to anyone who lives near the building. The functions listed, including tracking the locations of children, are the kind that ordinarily come with a public description. The 901 Report is requesting the Koniag Government Services award and all modifications from USASpending.gov, ICE's statement of work for the facility, the current list of Tennessee agencies holding 287(g) agreements, and any correspondence between ICE and Nashville's government about the site. We will report what those records show.

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The $63 Million ICE Call Center Is Coming to Nashville, and Nashville Says It Has Not Been Told the Plan

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