SHERIFF SPEAKS AT COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS MEETING IN NASHVILLE

It is bad enough that the people in Nashville, Tennessee that were trying to get an English-Only ordinance passed were working with groups with ties to white supremacists. Now it has been learned that the local Sheriff who has built a reputation of going after immigrants, particularly brown ones, is catching hell for speaking at the dinner in town sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens a few months ago. Sheriff Daron Hall is giving everyone the often repeated mantra that always comes up when prominent people hook up with these clowns that they didn’t know what kind of group they were. A cop is trained to be observant, so how much wiggle room should this guy get, honestly? What’s more, thanks to him and other Democratic elected officials in town pushing that 287(g) nonsense, behind a drunk driver killing two white people in town, close to 4,000 Hispanics have been deported behind minor infractions. That’s what has the C of CC crowing, which is what they do, so that’s not our issue. Our thing is that we should see from our elected officials a committment to enforcing the law to protect all of us, not just a segment of society. They said 287(g) would do that, and they were trusted enough to allow it through. Now, since Sheriff Hall has betrayed that trust by turning it into a race war, he needs to step aside.

Tennessean

Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was a featured speaker for a nationalist white hate group that condemns blacks, immigration and is in favor of preserving the country’s “cultural and racial integrity.”

Hall spoke about his department’s controversial 287(g) federal immigration program at a Nov. 22 dinner of the Council of Conservative Citizens held at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Murfreesboro Pike in Nashville.

The Council of Conservative Citizens opposes “mixing of the races,” homosexuality and nonwhite immigration — legal and illegal, according to its statement of principles on its Web site.The St. Louis-based group stems from the the racist, anti-integrationist White Citizens’ Councils of the 1950s and 1960s, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Hall says he didn’t know anything about the group’s views and figured it was one of many local organizations that request him as a guest speaker to hear about the immigration enforcement program.

“To be honest, I had no idea,” Hall said. “The person doing the scheduling for me had no reason to believe that this was such a group. I regret that we didn’t know. I surely don’t want that reputation.”

Hall’s appearance was touted in the group’s newsletter, the Citizens Informer, which stated that, under his leadership, “4,000 illegal aliens have been removed the streets of Davidson County, thus reducing crime. The meeting drew the largest attendance in 12 years, with many youth in attendance.”

Hall’s cameo was first reported on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog. The center subscribes to hate group publications.

Hall’s presence at that function is “shocking” and raises questions about his motives regarding the immigration program, said Elliott Ozment, a Nashville immigration lawyer who was dismissed from the sheriff’s immigration advisory council.

“This incident calls for some serious accounting of his conduct,” Ozment said. “It calls into question the integrity of the entire program.”

Hall says he receives numerous requests to speak about the immigration program. Last year, Hall says, he had at least one speaking engagement per week.

“I’ve worked hard my entire life to build relationships with diversity,” Hall said. “Remember, I’m an elected Democrat, and I did not want to just talk to Democrats. I saw ‘Conservative’ in the title and didn’t think anything about it.”