Tennessee GOP Effort to Track K-12 Student Immigration Status Advances

Tennessee legislators push bill to track immigrant students in bid to overturn universal right to public education

Tennessee seeks to track students’ legal status, turning schools into data‑collection arms for deportation.

Tennessee GOP effort to track K-12 student immigration status advances

Tennessee Republicans continue to advance legislation that would require public schools track and report the immigration status of their students despite heated pushback from local educators.

Subcommittee greenlights student immigration check legislation

(The Center Square) – A controversial bill passed by the Tennessee Senate last year allowing school districts to check student immigration statuses was changed and approved by a House subcommittee.

Tennessee bills on immigration status face backlash - Nashville Banner

Before a meeting of the House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee started Wednesday morning, hundreds of people flooded the hallway of the Cordell Hull legislative office building to oppose a pair of bills that would require schools and other public entities to track and report immigration status. The protesters, including a large number of public school students, filled every seat in the committee room and crowded the hallways outside as a fam…