The TIRRC in Nashville worked hard and succeeded in defeating many immigration bills brought forward last year. They are working even harder this year to defeat the many bills in this 2007 legislative session.

Cleveland, Tn was the latest place for TIRRC's misrepresentation of the bills by an attorney with the pro-illegal alien group. An article in the Cleveland Daily Banner said the bills were anti-immigration, not anti-illegal immigration. Joe Brooks was the writer of the misleading news story sympathetic to illegal aliens and the group supporting them in Cleveland called the Ocoee Regional Multicultural Services Center (ORMS), co-chaired by Tom Rowland, the City's Mayor. TIRRC visited the ORMS and continued the farce of being pro-legal immigration and yet against every bill that Americans and Tennesseans want to protect their cities and state from the invasion of illegal aliens and their profiteers.



Off Limits Immigration Update

Posted by PJ Tobia (03.22.07, 1:41 PM)

In this week’s Off Limits section of your Nashville Scene, we reported on a bill making its way through the state legislature that would make it a crime to transport undocumented immigrants into Tennessee. The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition opposes the bill on the grounds that it would burden individuals with enforcing federal immigration law, particularly church groups that often venture across state lines.

It seems that the coalition might not have to worry about road-tripping, undocumented believers after all. Today, the bill’s sponsor Rep. Mike Turner, told the Scene that another Nashville Democrat, Rep. Rob Briley, is crafting an amendment to the bill to exempt church organizations. But Turner says that’s as far as he’ll go.

"Some folks wanted to include all charitable groups" in the amendment, Turner says. "I opposed that because these are too easy to start up. Anyone can start a charity, it's much harder to start a Catholic church."
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http://www.tnimmigrant.org/TN_Coalition ... short.html

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