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The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Tennessee General Assembly and the State of Tennessee in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on Monday challenging the federal refugee resettlement program for violating the state’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit places Tennessee at the center of the national debate concerning the operation of the federal refugee resettlement program.
President Trump will be holding a rally in Nashville on Wednesday to garner public support for his agenda. His revised Executive Order 13780 temporarily halting the federal refugee resettlement program and temporarily banning travel from six Middle Eastern countries goes into effect on Thursday.
Consider a civilization based upon a court in a thriving city— Baghdad, for example. Arts and the intellect flourish. But over several generations, as the great Islamic philosopher of the fourteenth century Ibn Khaldun put it, the civilized become decadent with luxury. They lose their sharpness and think only of the good and the beautiful. And then some tribe of fierce Bedouin, smelling out weakness, come thundering in from the desert and storm the city. As barbarians, they do not understand the usages of civilization. They stable their horses in the libraries and use sculptures as doorstops, pictures for target practice. Given a pillow, Ibn Khaldun tells us contemptuously, they suppose it to be a bundle of rags. In time, however, the power of a superior culture is felt, and these people adopt and sometimes extend the ways of civilization, until they too are overthrown in their turn.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: xuenchen
Whatever Happened to " States Rights " when it comes to Immigration ? Can the Federal Government just Dictate the Terms of Resettlement of Alleged Refugees to States within the Union without their Approval First ? It does seem to be an Unconstitutional way of Governing , does it not ?
originally posted by: Pyle
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: xuenchen
Whatever Happened to " States Rights " when it comes to Immigration ? Can the Federal Government just Dictate the Terms of Resettlement of Alleged Refugees to States within the Union without their Approval First ? It does seem to be an Unconstitutional way of Governing , does it not ?
States can not bar any person from their state that is legally in the United States.