By Linda Blackford | Editor
Happy Friday.
After the Trump administration pressured the city of Louisville, Mayor Craig Greenberg changed policies on how long immigrants could be held in jail. There have been consequences, reports McKenna Horsley.
The Mercer County data center drama continues. You may have already read Liam Niemeyer’s excellent story about how the Burgin Independent school board has pushed a massive data center project. Now you can see how personal this issue can get for some people.
From our national desk, the Trump administration continues to go after states who offer in-state tuition to immigrants.
Thanks so much for reading and have a wonderful weekend!
Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 23, 2026, to help with airport security during the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE agents are increasingly making arrests at airports.(Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)
By McKenna Horsley
Last year, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg reinstated a detention policy for immigrants following complaints from the Trump administration.
Since then, the move has led to a dramatic increase in requests to hold immigrants detained so the federal government can assume custody of the people.
This map shows proposed hyperscale data centers across Kentucky. (Kentucky Lantern screenshot)
By Liam Niemeyer
On Tuesday, the Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, the latest turn over months of tumultuous debate in the rural county over whether the community should welcome a hyperscale data center project.
By Liam Niemeyer
Diane Floyd said she was watching her husband’s music show earlier this month when she got a message over Facebook. It was from Brian Luftman, the founder of American Farm Investors, one of the companies trying to bring a hyperscale data center to Mercer County.
Luftman threatened to publish a picture of her 2023 mugshot to a Facebook group called “Lexington Foodies.”
Students walk across the University of Louisville campus. Kentucky is one of 17 states the Trump administration sued to block in-state tuition for students in the country without permanent legal immigration status. (Photo by McKenna Horsley/Kentucky Lantern)
By Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued New York, Connecticut and Vermont over laws that allow immigrants in the country without permanent legal status to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they live.
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