Tennessee Democratic Party chair Mary Mancini released the following statement in response to the bill passed by the Tennessee State Senate calling for the Attorney General to sue the federal government over refugees:

"Tennessee Republicans would rather focus on national issues that are already settled instead of helping ordinary people of Tennessee. The time they spend pandering to special interests does nothing to help folks in this state put food on their table or send their kids to college.

And refusing refugees who are in desperate need of place to seek shelter from war and hardship, or kicking them out as Chairman Casada once suggested, is not who we are. It's shameful."