Cumberland County Had 98 Immigration-Related Reports in Tennessee’s 2025 Count

Public-records report · Published October 19, 2026. The statistics below cover 2025.

Cumberland County appears with 98 reports in Figure 3 of the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference’s 2025 Immigration Report. That is a count of submitted reports in a specific state reporting system. It should not be presented as 98 deportations or 98 convictions.

What the county figure measures

The report, dated January 30, 2026, analyzes Public Chapter 1008 arrestee-status forms. Its county table covers January through December 2025 and includes valid forms received by January 27, 2026. The form concerns an arrestee’s citizenship or lawful-presence status, including unknown status.

The publication describes reporting problems involving booking dates, late submissions, duplicate responses and citations. It also warns that some offense figures can count related charges more than once. These limitations matter when interpreting the county row. The number alone does not establish a unique-person count, a local crime rate or the outcome of each case. See Figure 3 on PDF page 6 and the limitations on page 9.

The separate question: the sheriff’s ICE agreement

State reporting and participation in the federal 287(g) program answer different questions. One concerns submitted records; the other concerns delegated immigration-enforcement authority.

Worth Fighting’s earlier Cumberland County ICE agreement report documents the Warrant Service Officer listing and retains its October 1 reporting date. The Tennessee county tracker provides the October 2 federal-roster comparison. Those dated findings are background, not a newly verified October 19 enforcement tally.

What the 2027 deadline adds

The General Assembly’s enacted HB2219 record identifies Public Chapter 1015 and describes a January 1, 2027 deadline for covered, POST-certified county sheriffs to enter an available 287(g) agreement. The measure recognizes several models, including Warrant Service Officer, and does not require local governing-body approval of the agreement.

Its summary also describes possible withholding of state funds allotted for sheriff’s-office use and an emergency suspension provision with notice requirements. The legislative history records the governor’s signature on May 19, 2026. This statewide requirement does not itself prove that a particular county received funding, trained a specified number of deputies or carried out a removal.

The records that would answer the next local questions

A useful follow-up would reconcile the county’s submitted forms with de-identified case outcomes, current officer authorizations, transfer totals and actual reimbursements. These are different measures; a single total should not substitute for all of them.

Residents can use the county’s sheriff directory to identify the agency and ask where its public-records procedures are posted. This publication has not obtained a reconciled Cumberland-specific outcomes file and has not sent a records request for this edition.

Source note: The county figure was checked against the original table. This is a new explanation of a historical report, not a claim of a new local enforcement operation.

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Location photograph: The historic Cumberland County Courthouse, photographed July 17, 2016. Location photograph; no immigration operation is depicted. Photo by Brian Stansberry, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.