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WSMV reporter Jeremy Finley examined the allegations against Gov. Phil Bredesen in Republican gubernatorial challenger Jim Bryson's new campaign ad, and found nothing in it that is not true. Finley does quibble with Bryson's charge that Bredesen has "made Tennessee a mecca for illegal aliens," saying, "no one knows how many illegal aliens move to Tennessee." But that actually helps prove Bryson's point - the Bredesen administration simply doesn't have a handle on the problem. By the way, if Finley had dug a little deeper, he would have learned that, among all 50 states, Tennessee had the tenth-highest influx of legal and illegal immigrants from 2000-2005, according to a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of new Census Bureau data - and almost half of new immigrants to the U.S. during that period are estimated to be illegals.
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WSMV reporter Jeremy Finley 