Tennessee Nonprofits to Face Liability for Criminal Actions of Illegal Immigrants Under Law Sent to Gov. Bill Lee for Signature
April 17, 2025 Tom Pappert
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.
Once signed by Lee, the legislation will modify Tennessee tort law to make charities and nonprofits who knowingly provide housing to illegal immigrants, who in turn go on to be convicted of crimes, liable to be sued in civil court by the victims of the illegal immigrant.
It would specifically modify the law to state, “a charitable organization that provides housing to a person who the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States may be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization’s conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct.”
Exceptions are included for charities which operate homeless shelters, who may be unlikely to gather such information about those they house.
Jury Selection Sets Stage for Casada Trial to Begin in Earnest
‘I wish it would hurry up and start, I’m ready to go home,’ said one potential juror on social media, who was then struck from duty
by Connor DaryaniApril 24, 2025
A 12-person jury with four alternates has been set after two days in the trial of Glen Casada and Cade Cothren, the former Tennessee House Speaker and his one-time chief of staff. Opening remarks will take place on Thursday morning.
The first panel of potential jurors consisted of 40 people, but after challenges from each side, the number was reduced to 22 by the end of Tuesday. On Wednesday, each side had the chance to strike 10 more people. The government struck only one, while the defense struck nine, leaving exactly 12 people to fill 12 jury seats.
That still left four alternate seats unfilled, which meant Day Two ended up being a long one, largely reminiscent of Day One. Twenty-four more potential jurors were brought in, and, as the defense discovered, one of the potential jurors was already exhausted.
“I wish it would hurry up and start, I’m ready to go home,” attorney Cynthia Sherwood read from one potential juror’s post on X (formerly Twitter).
The honesty continued throughout the day. While most of the pool was OK with the idea of avoiding any information outside of the courtroom about the case, one potential juror knew himself all too well.
“Yeah, to be 100 percent honest, I know for a fact I’m gonna go home and look it up,” said the potential juror.
That juror was unanimously dismissed. But the defense didn’t get their way on all of their requested dismissals.
“I think that anybody who has consumed media at this point should be stricken,” Sherwood said, arguing that she has not seen any media that is “positive” toward her client, Cothren. But Judge Eli Richardson, who made clear on Tuesday that minimal knowledge of the case was not grounds for dismissal of a potential juror, was unconvinced.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Drove Vehicle Registered to Convicted Human Trafficker During 2022 Traffic Stop in Tennessee, Court Records Confirm
April 23, 2025 Tom Pappert
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transporting eight passengers from Houston, Texas to Temple Hills, Maryland using a vehicle owned by an illegal immigrant who was convicted of human trafficking and deported from the United States to his country of origin, El Salvador.
Less than one week after The Tennessee Star reported that Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in late 2022, and released at the instruction of the “Biden-era FBI” despite being suspected of human trafficking, transporting nine passengers, and operating the vehicle without a valid license, Just the News reported that Abrego Garcia was driving a vehicle registered to Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes.
Hernandez Reyes was convicted in 2020 after he pleaded guilty to smuggling fellow illegal immigrants into the United States following a traffic stop in Mississippi. Hernandez Reyes was operating a company named Trans Express at the time, according to an affidavit filed by a special agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in December 2019.
It was further revealed that Hernandez Reyes was traveling with eight people in the vehicle, the same number as Abrego Garcia, and that he advertised the business on newspaper and social media.
Police said it cost $350 per person to secure a seat in Hernandez Reyes’ Dodge Grand Caravan, and that his illegal immigrant passengers were able to travel from Houston to destinations in South Carolina and Virginia.
Hernandez Reyes apparently made at least five trips from Houston to other parts of the country.
Notably, Hernandez Reyes was not driving the vehicle transporting illegal immigrants in 2020. It was instead driven by his brother-in-law, Modesto Alvarado, who apparently claimed to be the trafficker’s son, and was the only person inside the vehicle who was an American citizen.
A sentencing report obtained by The Star confirmed Hernandez Reyes pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport illegal immigrants. He was imprisoned for 18 months, but then remanded to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and banned from ever reentering the country for three years as part of his terms of release:
At the completion of the defendant’s term of imprisonment, the defendant shall be surrendered to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for removal proceedings consistent with the Immigration and Nationality Act. If removed, the defendant shall not re-enter the United States without the written permission of the Secretary of Homeland Security. The term of supervised release shall be non-reporting while the defendant is residing outside the United States. If the defendant re-enters the United States within the term of supervised release, he is to report to the nearest U.S. Probation Office within 72 hours of arrival.”
Act for America Prepares for SAVE ACT National Voter ID
NEWS ALERT! In a bombshell revelation, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered jaw-dropping evidence that 2.4 million illegal immigrants were issued Social Security numbers and—brace yourself—confirmed to have voted in the last election. Unveiled on March 31, 2025, at a Green Bay, Wisconsin, town hall, Musk showcased a graph from an internal Social Security Administration database, exposing a staggering 2.095 million new SSNs issued to non-citizens in FY2024 alone, part of a 4.8 million spike since FY2021.
This isn’t just fraud—it’s a deliberate gut-punch to American sovereignty, allegedly orchestrated under Biden to rig the electoral map.
With 80% of Americans demanding voter ID, per polls, this scandal fuels the SAVE Act’s urgency, slamming the Left’s “disenfranchisement” myth when 47 European nations lock down their votes with ID. Musk’s DOGE is peeling back the curtain—now it’s on us to demand accountability before our elections drown in this chaos!
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