Tennessee House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada spoke to The Tennessean yesterday and said Syrian refugees who are already in the country should be rounded up by the National Guard and forced into ICE centers.
"We need to activate the Tennessee National Guard and stop them from coming in to the state by whatever means we can," said House GOP Caucus Chairman Glen Casada, R-Franklin, referencing refugees.
"I’m not worried about what a bureaucrat in D.C. or an unelected judge thinks. ... We need to gather (Syrian refugees) up and politely take them back to the ICE center and say, 'They’re not coming to Tennessee, they’re yours.'"
Chairman Casada isn't worried about what some judge or the Constitution says.
Tennessee is a sovereign state. If the federal government is forsaking the obligation to protect our citizens, we need to act," Casada said during a phone interview with The Tennessean on Tuesday.
That's not actually how this works. That's not how any of this works. Chairman Casada and his colleagues do not have the authority to overrule the federal government under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
As the Tennessean points out, there are currently only 30 Syrian refugees living in the state of Tennessee. Does Chairman Casada really believe the National Guard must be deployed to round up 30 innocent people who, by all accounts, are minding their own business and trying to live a normal life?
Doing so would be grossly unconstitutional, but Chairman Casada has made it clear that he doesn't care what some "unelected judge" thinks.