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", "author_name": "Music City Migrawatch", "author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/music-city-migrawatch", "title": "Stop landlord Rick Fownes’ ICE Cruelty CALL Center!", "thumbnail_url": "https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/461/618/normal/Action_Network_Banner_Rick_Fownes.png", "description": "NO ICE CRUELTY CALL CENTER IN NASHVILLE! In August, ICE awarded a $63 million contract for a national operations call center to be managed in Adams, Tennessee by Koniag, an Alaska Native corporation. After weeks of pushback and protest from residents and public officials who said they had not been notified, Koniag updated their public documents which now specify 801 Royal Parkway in Donelson, a suburb of Nashville adjacent to BNA Airport, as the site of the planned call center. Bid documents for the call center highlight that it will host a ‘snitch line’ for hunting down and detaining immigrant youth, and will also be responsible for coordinating the expansion of 287(g) ICE operations with local law enforcement agencies across the country. The ICE operations center in Donelson is already a major part of ICE's plans for expansion in other states; public documents show that Gardaworld, the private company behind the Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp, was awarded a contract beginning November 2026 to run a vast new armed abduction network in every county in Texas, in which private security guards will be on call within 30 minutes to pick up anyone ICE requests detained anywhere in Texas. After revealing that Duxbury, Massachusetts-based landlord Rick Fownes owns the planned call center building at 801 Royal Parkway, we began reaching out to Rick Fownes and his property manager Joy McKenna, asking them to refuse to lease the building to ICE. Rick Fownes has made millions of dollars investing in real estate in his hometown in Massachusetts, in his second hometown golf community in coastal Georgia, and in vast real estate ventures including at the Atlanta Airport convention center, in downtown Decatur, Georgia, and in office complexes in Miami, Jacksonville, and elsewhere. He has business ventures with companies like Rivian and health tech companies like Petrichor. The tenants he and Joy McKenna rely on to pay them each month include prestigious law firms, international banks, small and large businesses, and city and state contractors and entities like TVA. They also rely on donations to nonprofits to launder their reputations- probably without the knowledge of organizations like the Miami Women's Fund where Joy McKenna served as a board member. Rick Fownes and Joy McKenna are personally responsible for the deaths in detention and thousands of separated families that will result if this call center is opened, and they can stop it now. After 2 months of reaching out to Rick and Joy without commitments from them to refuse the ICE lease, we are now reaching out to 40 of their closest business associates around the country and world. We ask all of Rick and Joy's business associates to reach out to them directly and demand that they put a stop to the lease for ICE's new cruelty call center - and refuse to do business with them or any of their companies if not. To take action with us, send this letter to Rick and 40 of his closest business partners (including Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell and city council member Jeff Gregg who represents 801 Royal Parkway in District 15), and then find us at Music City Migrawatch and send a message to plug into the campaign!", "url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-landlord-rick-fownes-ice-cruelty-call-center" }