They are changing America by changing the people
You bet they are! Why else send a high level delegation to the state last week to chat it up with those who drafted a bill that was ultimately signed into law that tells the feds they must do what federal law already says—coordinate with local officials before refugees are resettled into a particular state. … Continue reading Are they worrying over Tennessee at the US State Department?
Update: More accounts of the State Department’s trip to calm down the state of Tennessee over refugees, here and here. I expect this was a mission to calm things down in a state, the only state!, that has taken action to set up a process to put a moratorium in place if a local community … Continue reading State Department refugee officials in Tennessee this week
New readers may first wish to review stories about the indictments of 29 Somalis back in November 2010, here. The case is expected to go to trial in March if the court and more than two dozen lawyers for the defendants can get it all together. From The City Paper: The federal courthouse in downtown … Continue reading Somali sex-trafficking case inching toward trial in Tennessee
Center for Immigration Studies fellow, Don Barnett of Nashville, TN, recently traveled to New York to make a presentation on the Refugee Resettlement Program and tell the audience about the Tennessee initiative enacted into law last year that attempts to get some local control over the program. Up until now the US State Department and … Continue reading Don Barnett speaks at New York’s Penn Club on refugees; reports on Tennessee law
A model for other states? Just a week ago we told you about the mayor of Manchester, NH begging for a moratorium on refugees being resettled in his city. The Tennessee bill, just passed and signed into law and discussed in some detail in the Shelbyville Times Gazette, may be just the model other states … Continue reading Tennessee: Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act could be the ticket for other areas experiencing refugee overload