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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 12, 2017, 03:50:21 pm
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Tennessee lawsuit challenging refugee program could be filed by end of January, Kentucky may join
Posted by Ann Corcoran on January 12, 2017
Faithful readers know that this is a long time in coming, but we now see movement with the legal challenge that has the best shot of success in pushing the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program toward reform.
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Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Haslam fought the legislature on this issue. He welcomes more refugees to the state. Tennessee’s two US Senators (Alexander and Corker) also have done nothing to control expansion of the program in Tennessee.
The case, to be litigated by the Thomas Moore Law Center after the Tennessee legislature voted to sue and the governor agreed to hire them, involves the so-called Wilson-Fish provision that many believe is being used to unlawfully place the refugee program in a non-profit groups’ hands in states where the state government has opted out of the federal program.
In other words, one of the questions to be resolved is can a non-profit group (working with the feds) say how state taxpayer funds are spent, which is essentially what is happening in states that have withdrawn from the program?
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/tennessee-lawsuit-challenging-refugee-program-could-be-filed-by-end-of-january-kentucky-may-join/
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Is this Michael Savage's group? Or, maybe Levin's?
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Is this Michael Savage's group? Or, maybe Levin's?
@Sanguine
The case is being litigated by the St. Thomas More Law Center; I"m still trying to understand the particulars; but they are a legal organization that primarily defends Christian and Pro-Life issues.
Thomas More Law Center Selected to Represent Tennessee in Lawsuit Challenging the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program
The Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, has been selected by the Tennessee General Assembly to represent the General Assembly and the State of Tennessee in a constitutional challenge to the federal government’s refugee resettlement program as a violation of the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As a public interest law firm, TMLC will represent Tennessee without charge.
Continued: https://www.thomasmore.org/news/represent-tennessee-refugee-resettlement/
October 25, 2016 | Defending National Security
http://www.thomasmore.org/news/
It's been in the works for awhile so that is good.
St. Thomas More Law Center has also represented the folks who made those undercover abortion videos, namely, David Daleiden.
They seem to have nationwide chapters.
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Thanks for the info, @TomSea.