Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law House Bill 670, which requires any person arrested in the state to be able to prove legal status within three days or else la migra gets called in.

The only way a county can be exempt is if they already have an immigration enforcement agreement with the Feds like 287(g) or Secure Communities.

This law has the potential of looking like it’s not as bad as other measures because it would only impact “bad” people, that is people arrested for committing a crime. Of course this simplistic binary approach assumes that every arrest in the United States is conducted in good faith without an ounce of racial profiling involved.

We must also remember that Tennessee already has the fear of I.C.E. within the immigrant community there as evidenced by the terror of the Gurrolla familia.
Sources : Border Action Network, Memphis Commercial Appeal,