Governor Bill Lee has officially signed into Tennessee law a bill which creates a Class A misdemeanor for any illegal alien with a final removal order who refuses to leave the state within 90 days of when their final order was issued.
HB1704 was part of an immigration package created by the legislature under advisement from the Trump administration aimed at taking a more aggressive and direct approach to combatting illegal immigration in Tennessee.
The legislation moved through the committee process along party lines, ultimately passing the House 73-22 and the clearing the Senate 26-6 with continued Democrat objections and claims the new law could open the state to lawsuits, though Republican leadership has remained confident the bill will stand up to any judicial scrutiny.
