{"id":142177,"date":"2025-01-31T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=142177"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:08:37","slug":"tn-bill-would-make-it-felony-for-lawmakers-to-vote-for-sanctuary-city-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=142177","title":{"rendered":"TN Bill Would Make It Felony for Lawmakers to Vote for Sanctuary City Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/criminalizing-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternet<\/a>: &#8220;As Gov. Bill Lee\u2019s immigration enforcement plan moves swiftly through the Tennessee Legislature, one component of the bill \u2014 aimed at arresting local officials who support sanctuary policies for immigrants \u2014 drew scrutiny Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Included in the governor\u2019s wide-ranging proposal to coordinate with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/11\/trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a>\u00a0Administration on mass immigrant detentions and deportations is a provision that creates a Class E felony for public officials who vote to adopt or enact sanctuary policies. Sanctuary policies can shield undocumented immigrants and limit cooperation with enforcement action<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8230;.Sen. Todd Gardenhire, the Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, blasted the provision Tuesday as a \u201cdangerous precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are a Republic, and a Republic is one that we elect people to vote the way they feel like is best for the district, the city, county or the state,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet: &#8220;As Gov. Bill Lee\u2019s immigration enforcement plan moves swiftly through the Tennessee Legislature, one component of the bill \u2014 aimed at arresting local officials who support sanctuary policies for immigrants \u2014 drew scrutiny Tuesday. Included in the governor\u2019s wide-ranging proposal to coordinate with the\u00a0Trump\u00a0Administration on mass immigrant detentions and deportations is a provision that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142178,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177\/revisions\/142178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}