The Tennessee Highway Patrol contacted The Tennessee Star on Thursday night to confirm its earlier reporting that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador who was deported last month by the Trump administration, was stopped by THP in 2022 but ordered to be released by the FBI.
A THP spokesman told The Star, “The Tennessee Highway Patrol can confirm a 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was stopped for speeding on I-40.”
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Charitable organizations and nonprofits in Tennessee that provide housing to illegal immigrants will face civil liability for their criminal actions, should a court determine the charities acted negligently through their support, under legislation passed on Wednesday and sent to Governor Bill Lee to be signed into law.
Senate Bill (SB) 227 by State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) was passed earlier this month, and on Wednesday the State House passed Taylor’s version of the legislation along partisan lines, with 70 votes in favor and 23 votes against.
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Lawmakers in the Tennessee State House on Wednesday passed legislation to reassign the responsibility to handle key complaints from to the Human Rights Commission to the Tennessee Attorney General, with more than two-thirds of lawmakers voting to pass the legislation along partisan lines.
As passed on Wednesday, House Bill 910 by State Representative Johnny Garrett (R-Goodlettsville) would transfer the majority of responsibilities from the Human Rights Commission, whose board members are appointed by Tennessee’s Governor, House Speaker, and the Lieutenant Governor, to the Tennessee Attorney General.
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Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan are turning their attention to Google over concerns that the tech giant is censoring users and infringing on Americans’ free speech rights.
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Tennessean and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore was honored on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives on Wednesday.
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The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) dodged questions posed by The Tennessee Star in a Wednesday press inquiry about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador who was recently deported under President Donald Trump, and was detained by law enforcement while traveling through Tennessee in late 2022.
Additionally, the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS), which oversees THP, did not respond to questions related to Abrego Garcia’s presence in the state, which multiple sources confirmed to The Star on Wednesday, including that Abrego Garcia and his seven passengers were released at the request of the Biden administration’s FBI.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the release of records relating to the 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen of El Salvador who was deported last month under President Donald Trump, by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) is in the public interest.
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The State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub (R/FIMI), the months-old successor to the congressionally defunded Global Engagement Center, is shutting down at the direction of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he announced in multiple media Wednesday.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) on Thursday told The Tennessee Star it had no knowledge of the 2022 stop by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador who was deported last month under President Donald Trump.
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The Trump administration intends to overhaul the Endangered Species Act by changing what it means to harm an endangered or threatened species as part of the larger White House campaign to spur economic growth through deregulation, RealClearPolitics is first to report.
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By the time this is published, everything may have changed, and that is to be expected. Throughout his career, well before and since becoming a politician, Trump has explicitly stated that he does not think it is always a good strategy to be predictable. And while markets love predictability, sometimes markets, and the systems propping them up, need disruption. This is such a moment.
Nobody should deny that the anxiety is genuine. An older friend of mine, well into his 70s, still working but ready to retire, is wondering how he and his wife will survive if their savings are wiped out. That’s true for all of us, but it begs the question: What if the painful restructuring we may be about to endure, and which may last for many years, is necessary to avoid an even worse fate?
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President Donald Trump ordered a probe into new tariffs on “critical minerals” amid a push to reduce America’s reliance on imported goods, particularly those from China.
Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to investigate the possibility and feasibility of new tariffs on “critical minerals” such as cobalt, lithium, nickel and others crucial to production of advanced goods like computer chips. The national security probe falls under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the same law Trump used to enact a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum.
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