Crosposted From: Right Truth
Beautiful Tennessee, part of the deep south and a long way from the border of Mexico… but smack dab in the middle of the immigration problems that plague this nation. Tennessee is the ‘volunteer state’, the land of lakes and rivers, dogwood trees, symphony concerts, Broadway plays, country music, sipping iced tea on the porch, and most importantly ‘hospitality’.
The southern saying, “Y’all come back now, the door’s always open.” is a sign of our hospitality. We welcome invited guests, friends and family. But we do not want intruders stepping on that southern hospitality. Unfortunately we have been stepped on like a dirty door mat by illegal immigrants criminal invaders. And now we want it to stop. If corporations have to be closed down, taken to court, fined, whatever, to clean house of these criminals, then so be it.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, an estimated 95,000 illegal immigrants, mostly Hispanic, had settled in Tennessee by 2004, compared to roughly 10,000 in 1990, and demographers believe the number has further increased over the past 15 months. The 2004 tally
puts Tennessee 20th in the country, Pew estimates.From 1990 to 2000, Tennessee’s Hispanic population grew by 278 percent, from 32,741 to 123,838. The state ranked sixth in the growth of foreign-born residents with a 168 percent increase that also included Asians, Africans and other nationalities. Nashville also boasts the nation’s largest Kurdish population and served as a regional voting center in the Iraqi elections.
They [Tennesseeans] also put much of the blame for Tennessee’s illegal immigration rise to a since-revised 2001 state law that enabled immigrants to get driver’s licenses without a Social Security number. Thousands of Hispanics applied for licenses within months after the law went into effect.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn said she believes most Tennessee residents want toughened enforcement against illegal immigration. “From my constituents, everybody agrees that the number one thing we have to do is seal the border,”. Phil Valentine on SuperTalk 99.7 WTN is leader of what he calls “a De-Magnetize Tennessee” movement to eliminate job and benefits for illegal immigrants. Another anti-immigration advocate is Theresa Harmon, a suburban mother who helped found Tennesseans for Responsible Immigration Policies. source: Dave Montgomery, “Tennessee Becomes Battleground In Immigration Debate”
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