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Republicans say the proposal is a challenge to a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which established the right to education for students without legal status. That's part of the Republican strategy, especially with the court's conservative majority, says Stella Yarbrough, the legal director of Tennessee's ACLU.

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Tennessee was before the Supreme Court late last year to defend its ban on gender-affirming care for minors. When that ruling comes out this summer, state Republicans will get a sense of whether their strategy works. For NPR News, I'm Marianna Bakayau in Nashville.

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Lawyers and family members of those detained say they haven't been able to contact them since the arrests. During a protest outside Nashville's ICE office Sunday, a bus full of people could be heard slapping their hands against the glass of the windows as they were driven out of the office to an unknown location. ICE did not respond to requests for comment.

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Immigrant advocate Giselle Huerta told the crowd that the raid amounts to racial profiling. They swear my people are criminals. They swear my people are aliens when they look like you and me. Nashville's mayor says that the arrests further erode trust between law enforcement and the community. For NPR News, I'm Marianna Bakayau in Nashville.

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The bill aims to challenge the 1982 Supreme Court decision that established the right to an education for all students, regardless of immigration status. The bill's Republican sponsors hope for a different outcome this time around, given the court's 6-3 majority of GOP appointees. But not all Republicans support the measure.