Tennessee legislators fail on immigrants and Governor Haslam confirms HB 2315

Tennessee state House and Senate recently approved the HB 2315 bill which allows local authorities to inquire about immigration status during routine operations and Governor Haslam will allow it to become law (Commercial Appeal)

This is a mistake that will affect thousands of people and goes against most of the Tennesseans will.

Last Thursday (May 17th, 2018) Nashville Public Radio published an article sharing the results of a Vanderbilt poll demonstrating that 56 % of Tennesseans supported undocumented people applying to U.S citizenship: "A new poll from Vanderbilt University finds that 56 percent of Tennessee voters say undocumented immigrants "should be allowed to stay in the country and to eventually apply for U.S. citizenship." That's up from 48 percent when Vanderbilt first asked the question nearly six years ago"

The poll also shows how Tennesseans support the In-state tuition for DACA recipients by 65%, another bill that state legislators have denied several years by now: "Support for making people in the DACA program eligible for in-state college tuition was even higher. According to Vanderbilt, 65 percent of Tennesseans believe they should be eligible".

This important Vanderbilt poll demonstrates that state legislators are misrepresenting Tennesseans at least in two important topics and Governor Haslam will allow this to continue (Tennessean). Tennesseans are becoming more moderate in these topics and the actual representatives are not doing their job representing Tennesseans will.

Hopefully, Tennesseans will keep state representatives accountable in November voting.