TN Republicans' bill would oust officials who release 'confidential' immigration enforcement details

[Eugene]

Source: Nashville Tennessean

TN Republicans' bill would oust officials who release 'confidential' immigration enforcement details

Rachel Wegner and Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean
Tue, June 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM EDT 4 min read

Top Tennessee Republican lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make it a felony and grounds for removal if public officials jeopardize the safety of federal law enforcement officers or disrupt federal immigration enforcement by revealing confidential operation details.

The bill, filed by House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson on June 9, comes after a weeklong operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nashville in early May. The operation led to hundreds of traffic stops, in coordination with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and nearly 200 arrests.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell has been under scrutiny from state and federal Republican leaders over his response to the arrests. During the operation, O'Connell updated an existing executive order that requires city departments to report communications with federal immigration officials to the mayor's office, tightening the timeline for those reports.

Even in its original version, the executive order included a provision that those communications be posted online for transparency. When O’Connell's office posted that list in late May, it originally included the names of some officials who called. Those names have since been removed from the version of the spreadsheet posted online.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tn-republicans-bill-oust-officials-164301613.html

[Skittles]

1. sounds so.....gestapo-like

yup

[slightlv]

2. Can you believe how incredibly terrified and entitled

republicans feel -- from the lowest paid wage worker to the highest office in the land. They're all terrified the people are going to come after them. And they SHOULD feel this way, if only Americans had a history that had been taught (re: drummed into them) all throughout their school years. Instead, the Revolutionary War was glossed over; the Civil War was much too complicated to spend a great deal of time and critical thinking over. We rarely read of protests and dissents in other countries. Most of us never realized that the French and English (at least) could call for a nationwide strike, and actually pull off a real nationwide strike, in order to change things their governments refused to listen to them complain about. How different our lives might be if we were taught we were of a diverse but united community who pulled together for each other, rather than "rugged individualism" being held up as the true promise of real America.

Republicans, conservatives, religious nuts, and magats are absolutely among the most fearful of any people I've ever seen. It would be interesting to compare the amygdala from one of these people 20-30 years ago, vs the amygdala from a magat of today. How much more mutant would it be? My guess... highly mutated.