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Lawsuit challenges Tennessee law against ‘harboring' undocumented people
Advocates filed a federal lawsuit to block a new Tennessee law that criminalizes harboring or providing shelter to undocumented immigrants days before the law takes effect.
The Tennessee-based Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America filed the lawsuit Friday, joined by a Nashville landlord and a Mexican immigrant in the state. They allege that the law is unconstitutionally vague, oversteps federal authority to regulate immigration, and could place churches, landlords and immigrant communities in the state's crosshairs.
