Bills mandate ICE cooperation, school status checks and criminalize information release, testing constitutional lines
The power to enforce immigration law rests with the federal government. But Trump adviser, Stephen Miller, has a vision for states working in coordination with federal immigration officials, and he’s attempting to test it out in Tennessee.
Earlier this month, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Miller had been meeting in Washington DC with Tennessee speaker of the house, Cameron Sexton, to craft model legislation for states around the country.
A few weeks later, the speaker announced a suite of eight bills that would turn state and local police officers, judges, teachers, social workers and others into an auxiliary extension of the federal immigration system. It makes the presence of an undocumented person with a final deportation order a state crime in Tennessee. And it mandates that officials report the presence of undocumented persons to ICE, while criminalizing disclosure of information about immigration enforcement activities to the public.
12 Comments
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 187d
Forcing teachers to rat out their students is a sure-fire way to force the teachers to quit. So here is the next brain drain attempt, gotta keep making everyone dumber so they can be manipulated easier.
They killed the DOE, PBS, attacked colleges. You know the things that made us great and desirable for foreign students who brought in billions in loans and outside scholarships.
Mist101@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 187d
Uh, yeah, I really hope the good ol' boys remember the moonshine days. Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top Looking for a moonshine still Strangers ain’t come down from Rocky Top Reckon they never will
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 187d
You forget that all the descendants of outlaws love to be told what to do by thier good friends in blue these days.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 187d
They are the blue.
officermike@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 187d
Don't know if this is what you meant, but it fits the conversation.
Blue Fugates
miked@piefed.social · 2 pts · 186d
Grandparents were rum runners during prohibition.
ACAB. FTP.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 187d
That's a mighty big canvas upon which Aldo Raine could produce his masterpiece. Motherfucker had Goebbels and Dr. Evil as his role models. What an irredeemable sack of shit.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 187d
Well so much for having any qualified teachers left in Tennessee.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 187d
The sooner people realize Trump is nothing more than a puppet with Stephen Miller’s hand jammed so far up his diapered ass the better.
I know that Trump makes a good lightning rod for ire, but more people need to be placing their focus on Miller.
yesman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 187d
Well, like Fred Hampton said: a pig is a pig.
Maybe we can squash the stupid lib ideal that ICE is one iota different than their local Jake.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 186d
For those playing fascism bingo at home today, this is number 11.
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Editorials/fascism.html
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
Who elected this little douchebag anyway?