We have to hand it to the Tennessee General Assembly: Our lawmakers really know how to make nothing out of nothing and into more nothing.
The bill legislators just passed to ban sanctuary cities in the Volunteer State is a case in point.
There is nothing to ban. There are no sanctuary cities in Tennessee. What’s more, there is no real way to enforce a provision of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Jay Reedy, R-Erin, that would deny state economic and community grants to towns and cities that have so-called “sanctuary city policies.”
We’re guessing that those “policies” might include any disinclination of a police department to stop and frisk people who look Hispanic just to see if they have documentation.
In other words, those policies might be pretty much anything that isn’t hard and cruel to immigrants here.