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Peter1469
03-13-2017, 06:01 PM
Tennessee sues federal government over refugees (http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/13/tennessee-sues-federal-government-over-refugees/99123670/)
Using the 10th Amendment, Tennessee sues the federal government about plans to move refugees into Tennessee without Tennessee's consent.

The federal government clearly controls immigration and nationalization, but to the point of dictating where they live? We will see what the courts say.


Tennessee became the first state in the nation on Monday to sue the federal government over refugee resettlement on the grounds of the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of several state lawmakers Monday morning in the western district of Tennessee, contends that the federal government has violated the Tenth Amendment, which says the federal government possesses only the powers delegated to it by the U.S. Constitution and that all other powers are reserved for the states.


The charge that the federal government is not complying with the Refugee Act of 1980, based on the Tenth Amendment, makes Tennessee's lawsuit the first of its kind. Other states have sued the federal government over refugee resettlement but on different legal grounds.


The lawsuit argues that the federal government has unduly forced states to pay for the refugee resettlement program. The federal refugee act was designed to create a permanent procedure for the admission of refugees into the United States.

The lawsuit asks the court to force the federal government to stop resettling refugees in Tennessee until all costs associated with the settlement are incurred by the federal government.

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