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Free Press Opinion: Bills seek to set up a system of foxes and hounds in rounding up immigrants

AP File Photo/George Walker IV / Michelle Flynn is removed from a House committee meeting on immigration by state troopers during a special session of the Tennessee legislature on Jan. 29, 2025, in Nashville.
AP File Photo/George Walker IV / Michelle Flynn is removed from a House committee meeting on immigration by state troopers during a special session of the Tennessee legislature on Jan. 29, 2025, in Nashville. AP File Photo/George Walker IV / Michelle Flynn is removed from a House committee meeting on immigration by state troopers during a special session of the Tennessee legislature on Jan. 29, 2025, in Nashville.

By Clint Cooper 5 min read

Tennessee legislators are filing bills as if there were a contest to see which state could eradicate its illegal immigrants the quickest.

Perhaps they believe there is such a contest.

But bills filed this year want to shame illegal immigrants, keep them from working, keep them from being educated, keep them off the roads, report their presence.

(IN THE NEWS: Tennessee Republicans unveil ‘Immigration 2026’ agenda as ‘model’ for rest of nation)

We get it. Americans voted in a plurality in 2024 to reelect as president Donald Trump, who made a good bit of his campaign about illegal immigration and deporting those who are here illegally. And good to his word, he has set to work to do so.