Immigration

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Politics This Week: The Madness We’re Not Allowed to Handle

By Justin Katz | March 18, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the many charades insiders want RI to perpetuate

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Alzate is too dangerous to be a legislator.

By Justin Katz | March 3, 2025 |

Rhode Islanders should take legislation like this much more seriously than they do, because it exposes how little Democrat legislators respect our rights, understand the workings of those rights, and/or are willing to place our rights above their political ideology and interest groups: State Rep. Karen Alzate isn’t waiting for federal immigration raids in Rhode…

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Why would an “objective” newspaper downplay its own findings?

By Justin Katz | February 25, 2025 |

Here’s the Providence Journal headline:  “Numbers show RI undocumented immigrants a small slice of those getting benefits. What we know.” Here’s one of the shocking facts that journalist Katherine Gregg did the work to uncover: Medicaid payments on behalf of those without Social Security numbers totaled $55.4 million last year, including the $16,106,050 paid for…

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Politics This Week: Our Uncredible Elite

By Justin Katz | February 4, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz break down some of the latest political news in Rhode Island.

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The rhetorical positioning is the important part of the birthright-citizenship debate.

By Justin Katz | January 30, 2025 |

One sees people take positions of similar structure to Ken Block’s, here, on many issues, from immigration to finance to healthcare to science: One of humanity’s great advantages is that we can divide the labor of understanding.  One person figures something out, and others can build on his or her conclusions without necessarily repeating all…

The RI State House in the middle of a plantation

Politics This Week: Trump’s Threat to the Government Plantation

By Justin Katz | January 28, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the danger to the RI establishment’s business model with the incoming Trump administration.

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Vance should add a point to his view on citizen construction work.

By Justin Katz | January 28, 2025 |

It’s from October, but this argument from Vice President Vance against the view that nobody will build houses except illegals is worth revisiting: “This is one of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is it gets us in a mind-set of saying we can only build houses with…

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Politics This Week: RI Pols, the Saviors at Every Funeral

By Justin Katz | January 14, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about RI politicians’ attempts to spin reality.

A horde of cult members worships the RI State House as the city burns

Politics This Week: RI’s Unshakable Faith in Government

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2024 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz review the growing list of reasons RI should question giving government more authority.

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Politics This Week: Whom Do They Think They’re Kidding?

By Justin Katz | December 3, 2024 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz review political news from the state and nation.