A lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth is going on about an illegal alien bill passed into law in Arizona.
Hate to let you down but Tennessee has had a similar piece of legislation in effect for some time. Tennessee's 287 (g) program has allowed local municipalities to join with the fed and do enforcement of federal immigration laws. The same or incredibly similar rules for checking of status as Arizona just passed is already being done in one county in Tennessee.
Davidson (Nashville) has had this in effect for three years. The results? Incredibly successful.
The original legislation was brought by Delores Gresham in the house (HB491) and Mark Norris in the senate (SB1604) back in 2007.
Of course it has not been implemented state wide as it has been done in AZ but the ability is there.
Possibly next year with the new Republican Governor something will get brought forward to do just that.
I can think of one potential Republican senator who would like to see it passed.
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