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Current law allows local Tennessee law enforcement agencies to report to the federal government when they arrest a person that is unauthorized to be in the United States. A bill heading to the governor would require it.
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The legislation includes setting up a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but its fate in Congress, which has rejected such measures for the past two decades, is uncertain.
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The unsealing follows a workplace raid last year, which led to the arrests of hundreds of suspected undocumented immigrants.