Tennessee legislature moves one step closer to states' right lawsuit on refugee program

This is a big deal! Just yesterday we reported that Syrian refugees resettled in Memphis, TN are dumpster diving because they don’t have jobs and apparently their resettlement agency (a contractor of the federal government) doesn’t raise enough private charitable money to help them! Tennessee legislators have had enough of Washington making decisions for Tennessee … Continue reading Tennessee legislature moves one step closer to states' right lawsuit on refugee program

Tennessee legislature moves a step closer to filing states' rights lawsuit on refugee program

All over the country, ‘Pockets of Resistance,’ are forming to oppose the heavy-handed (secretive and costly) UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions Program.  Tennesseans get kudos for being among the first to be recognized as resisters by the federal government as I learned here at a 2013 meeting the Office of Refugee Resettlement held in Lancaster, … Continue reading Tennessee legislature moves a step closer to filing states' rights lawsuit on refugee program

Tennessee legislators want answers about fiscal impact of refugee resettlement

This is a report from Bobbie Patray of the Tennessee Eagle Forum about the first meeting of a select committee of the Tennessee legislature to address  the 10th Amendment of the Constitution and the encroachment by the federal government on states’ rights in regards to the resettlement of migrants in the state by Catholic Charities … Continue reading Tennessee legislators want answers about fiscal impact of refugee resettlement

Article explains why Texas withdrawal from Refugee Program may benefit resettlement in state (in long run)

For everyone getting excited about governors withdrawing from the Refugee Admissions Program, please take a breath. The feds will simply pick a non-profit refugee contractor to run the program unless the governor takes the second step and that is, after being declared a Wilson-Fish state, he or she joins the Tennessee Tenth Amendment case prepared … Continue reading Article explains why Texas withdrawal from Refugee Program may benefit resettlement in state (in long run)