And yes, Nashville Metro government believes it exists to represent and secure employment for foreign nationals, the more illegal the better.

Last year we had the guy who manages Loews Vanderbilt Plaza comment here with a spirited defense of his illegal hiring ways. If a $200+ a night hotel is cutting corners that way I can only imagine how Oldham’s do.

Somewhat recently, the NCCCP did a big spread on how illegals in Nashville really feel that they’ve got good representation in Nashville government.

I can’t say that I disagree. They already run the Mayor’s office. Might as well run all the newspapers too.

And what a coincidence – their “hospitality” guy walks in the door the same day as the current hospitality guy is getting shown the door over an e-mail forward. In a story broken by his paper.

I remember talking with a Tennessean reporter who called me about some state legislation related to immigration. For some reason, I happened to mention the Earned Income Tax Credit, along with information that tax preparers had sent me about how illegal aliens were gaming the system and getting this credit. The reporter didn’t really understand what the credit was, so I explained it, and I heard the excitement burst through the phone line.

This “diversity” reporter abandoned the legislative story and wrote a story about how Tennesseans, read immigrants, could get the EITC. The reporter wrote up this credit as an entitlement, a tax refund, and conveniently omitted the fact I had conveyed to her about its being a straight-out welfare program unrelated to any “tax refund.” In fact, I wasn’t quoted at all.

Oh well. I just stopped telling them about stuff like that.