Tennessee–Three foreign-born residents of Nashville, Tennessee were diagnosed with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) in 2014 and 2015, according to the Tennessee Department of Health. All told, in the six years between 2010 and 2015, seven cases of MDR TB…
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Public Shocked at TB Epidemic from Muslim Refugees
Twenty-seven percent of the refugees who arrived in Tennessee between 2011 and 2015 tested positive for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), according to data provided to Breitbart News by the Tennessee Office for Refugees (TOR). TOR is the subsidiary of Catholic…
Read MoreHaslam’s Weak Leadership a Growing Problem for Tennessee
State Senator Mark Norris (R-Collierville) is sharply rebuking Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam for mischaracterizing the Tennessee General Assembly’s Tenth Amendment lawsuit against the federal government for its operation of the refugee resettlement program to the state’s Attorney General, Herbert Slatery….
Read MoreTrial Highlights Rape and Assault by ‘Refugees’ Against Locals
After the first time, the pain of the knife slicing into his thigh started to numb. He did not know his attackers, only that four men who spoke English and another language he did not recognize forced him and his…
Read MoreLegislature Gets National Attention for Resisting Federal Abuses
Several Tennessee state legislators appear ready to rebel against the implementation of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program after hearing testimony from Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons that the Obama administration has failed to comply with…
Read MoreLegislature Considers Dangers of Muslim Refugees
Tennessee lawmakers had many questions Wednesday afternoon about refugees who have been resettled in the state by the federal government and the ones that still might come here. Concern nationwide and in Tennessee grew after a Syrian passport was found…
Read MoreNashville’s Native Refugee Crisis
Recently I lunched with a friend only a few miles from what I call Nashville’s “third world district,” albeit mainly composed of people born in the United States. It is one of the trendy spots, a major attraction for millennials,…
Read MoreAre the Muslim Refugees a National Security Threat?
While lawmakers begin drawing the line in the sand over what to do with 10,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees, many have asked the question: What if there are terrorists in the midst of those refugees? If we do allow the…
Read MoreShould “Refugees” Face a Religious Test?
As I argued in Faithless Execution, the principal constitutional duty of the chief executive is to execute the laws faithfully. President Obama, by contrast, sees his principal task as imposing his post-American “progressive” preferences, regardless of what the laws mandate….
Read MoreRep Casada Calls for National Guard Use Against Refugees
With several GOP governors calling to stop Syrian refugees from entering their states in the wake of the Paris attacks, one Republican leader in Tennessee wants to take that matter further: He says the National Guard should round up the…
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