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Immigrants in Memphis Fear Arizona Immigration Laws are Coming
Reported by: Jackie Orozco
Email: JOrozco@abc24.com
Published: 3/31 6:05 pm
Updated: 10:29 am

MEMPHIS, TN -- After a set of immigration bills, including an Arizona-style measure, passed a Tennessee House subcommittee, immigrant families in Memphis are living in fear.

Three immigration type bills passed on Wednesday. House Bill 1378 will require Tennessee employers to use the federal "E-Verify" program to prove their employees are here legally. That bill will cost the state an annual $81,100 to fund. House Bill 1379 will affect state programs, like food stamps, TennCare, or unemployment insurance. In order to receive those benefits, applicants will need to prove their citizenship status. That bill carries a price tag of $1.5 million. The third bill, HB 1380, will give power to police to question a person's immigration status after being pulled over for any kind of traffic stop. That bill has a $3-million price tag.

Many undocumented immigrants tell abc24.com they understand they broke the law by crossing the border illegally but say they had no other choice. More than 52-thousand Latinos live in Shelby County. With a growing Latino community in the Mid-South, some that are here illegally are afraid of what's going on in the state house.

One woman says she crossed the border illegally two years ago. “Lorenaâ€

According to TN Rep. Carr, the cost of illegal immigration in Tennessee has jumped 200 million dollars in the last five years. Sad to know that Tennessee taxpayers have born the costs of our federal government doing little to enforce immigration law. It is even worse to know that Tennessee lawmakers have allowed this damage to occur.

It will be great if the laws passed in Tennessee actually get enforced.

2 Corinthians 5:7, it is written, "We walk by faith, not by sight."

To you Illegal immigrants
you should not be In this country at all . why I will tell you why
you kill & rap. DR & kill . you have our jobs & free med care
& free welfar .
My son has no job why you SB/ has it his friends also lost the job you will work cheap . well In MY Book you are the fool
we American work just we want the right pay. well my son
goes to welfar fro help & he can not get. but you get it & cell phone
also & we pay for this . & by the way the American are not racist
that was obama doing not the American . this is to congress wake the hell . stand up for the American . we pay your salary/ & oBama also . the President work for the USA .we don't work for the President .
so congress wake up stand up to Obama


no Amnesty
Help us get USA Back

Two of her children live in Mexico and has two other children born and raised in the United States

But . . . but . . . I thought it was the mean and racist gringos that separated families.

In order to receive those benefits, applicants will need to prove their citizenship status. That bill carries a price tag of $1.5 million.

but how much money will be saved by the state each year by someone illegally not getting any state monies?
im willing to bet it will be far more than the price tag of 1.5 Million

Originally Posted by jamesw62

In order to receive those benefits, applicants will need to prove their citizenship status. That bill carries a price tag of $1.5 million.

but how much money will be saved by the state each year by someone illegally not getting any state monies?
im willing to bet it will be far more than the price tag of 1.5 Million

Exactly James! I noticed this paper puts the "price tag" right up front never mentioning how much it will save TAXPAYERS, as if the price tag should halt any proceedings. And this "we know we did wrong, but we had no other choice" BS is just that BS! We know we did wrong but didn't give a hoot in hell about your laws, would be the honest explanation.

Tunica, MS is full of casinos and is only 35-30 miles South of Memphis TN.

I stayed at Sams Town Casino last year and the housekeeping supervisor was the interpeter for the "staff" in the hotel. When I checked out I told them that I felt like had been on an international vacation.