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Gardenhire Takes Different Approach at Child Migrant Hearing

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 23, 2021

A legislative panel studying the impact of refugee children on Tennessee met for the first time on Friday, Tennessee Lookout reports. With most members questioning the federal government’s transparency in moving children to Tennessee, the cost of housing the children in the state, or the Biden administration's policies at the Southwest border, Republican Sen. Todd Gardenhire took a different approach. He questioned whether the facility housing children in Chattanooga would get a fair hearing before the panel citing "preconceived ideas" of some of his colleagues. He also cast doubt on the idea that the situation in Chattanooga is the fault of the Biden administration, saying the first load of unaccompanied minors arrived there in October 2020 when President Donald Trump was in office. Finally, he asked the panel to request the official flight plan for the plane that brought the children to Chattanooga before members suggest that it stopped in other Tennessee cities along the way, as one member of the panel did earlier in the proceeding.

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