A Committee of the Hamblen County Commission voted yesterday to send Anti-ILLEGAL Immigration Resolutions on to the full Commission on December 20.
In what was at times a heated discussion, Commissioners Joe Swann and Tommy Massey lined up together to present the case for waiting and studying the issue.
Joe Swann pointed out that businesses pay the majority of property taxes in Morristown and in Hamblen County and he wants to wait to get his "hands around" the whole issue.
Tommy Massey said conditions are deplorable in Mexico, and he defended Commissioner Swann's desire to study the issue.
Commissioners Joe Spoone and Larry Baker along with Sheriff Esco Jarnagin presented the case against ILLEGAL immigration, pointing out the obvious---the issue is ILLEGAL immigration.
And pointing out that it is ILLEGAL immigration even if it benefits the bottomline of a business and even if it benefits the lawbreaker and his family.
They also pointed out the devastating and wide-ranging economic effects of ILLEGAL immigration on the average person in Hamblen County. Increased law enforcement and incarceration costs, increased educational costs, increased healthcare costs, increased costs for social benefits.
More to come...
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