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Tennessee’s push to jail officials backing immigration ‘sanctuary’ raises alarm

US state threatens removal and at least one year in prison for lawmakers who support ‘sanctuary city’ ordinances

Tennessee is known for taking a stricter line on immigration enforcement than many other US states. Now it has taken a step that has Democrats raising the alarm: threatening a minimum of one year in prison for lawmakers who vote the so-called wrong way on immigration policy.

In January, the state general assembly passed legislation, by about a three-to-one majority, to make it a felony for a local lawmaker, such as a school board member or a city councilperson, to vote affirmatively on a local ordinance that adopts any “sanctuary city” policy of noncompliance with federal immigration law enforcement officials.

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© Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

© Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

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