by Brian Wilson | May 6, 2025 | Justice, News, Politics, Tennessee, The South
In a hurriedly-called press conference on Monday, Mayor Freddie O’Connell – without using the exact phrase – laid out his position that the City of Nashville is essentially a sanctuary city. Mayor O’Connell said he is “heartbroken” State and Federal law enforcement...
by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 18, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee appointed long-time law enforcement veteran Ryan Hubbard to serve as the state’s first-ever chief immigration enforcement officer. The chief immigration enforcement officer will lead the Tennessee Chief Immigration Enforcement Division...
by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 15, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, supports a bill sponsored by U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14), which would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report how many special interest...
by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 14, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South
The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill last week that would invalidate out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens and make it a misdemeanor offense to operate motor vehicles in the state with such licenses. The bill, HB0749/SB1086, passed...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 27, 2025 | Justice, National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said he would advise President Donald Trump to draft his forthcoming executive order on sanctuary cities surrounding the withholding of funds to avoid legal...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 17, 2025 | National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, World
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, recently returned from touring the U.S.-Mexico border last week where he said President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have had a “magical effect” when it comes to the dramatic...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 4, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the greatest mass migration border crisis in U.S. history ended in a matter of hours under President Donald Trump’s executive powers implementing simple “deportation,...
by Christina Botteri | Feb 17, 2025 | Justice, National, News, Tennessee, The South, World
In a significant drug trafficking case with ties to Tennessee, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle on Thursday handed down an 11-year and 3-month prison sentence to 27 year-old Nicolas Garcia Hernandez from Shelbyville, Tennessee for possessing methamphetamine...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 13, 2025 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The South
Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday to highlight the rise in migrant crime in the Volunteer State during the final months of the Biden administration and called on her colleagues to pass legislation to support...
by Zachery Schmidt | Feb 10, 2025 | National, News, Politics
A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that most Americans approve of Donald Trump’s first weeks in office. The poll released Sunday found that 53 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s term so far. Sixty percent of males and 47 percent of females approved of Trump’s...
