Immigration

Here’s the plan. Seventy five of us are going to charter a plane and fly to the capitols of half a dozen countries around the world. I’m thinking Lisbon, Santiago, Bern, Warsaw, Rome and London. When we get to each city, we’re going to “storm” the office of the policy director of the president or…

At the news conference yesterday of Rhode Island clergy leaders where the Governor’s Executive Order on illegal immigration was criticized with various levels of tact, the Reverend Donald C. Anderson, Executive Minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, observed In God’s kingdom there are no second-class citizens, only sisters and brothers. Rhode Island…

A caller to the Dan Yorke Show this afternoon did not quite connect the dots but juxtaposed Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts’ position on universal health care (she favors it) with her call for the Governor to withdraw his Executive Order pertaining to illegal immigration. The caller raised an interesting point. Putting together the Lieutenant Governor’s…

The curious thing is that they don’t offer an “instead”: At least 250 people packed the Algonquin House on Broad Street for the 2 p.m. news conference, sponsored by Immigrants United, We Can Stop the Hate Rhode Island, Univocal Legislative Minority Advocacy and Hispanic Ministerial Association Miguel Sanchez-Hartwein, executive director of the Center for Hispanic…

The first 2 sections of Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri’s executive order on immigration concern the use of an automated system called “E-Verify” for confirming whether new hires by state government and state government contractors are in the country legally…1. The Department of Administration shall register and use the federal government’s E-Verify program to electronically…

Governor Donald Carcieri’s executive order concerning illegal immigration basically has two sections, a set of provisions that apply to the state government’s hiring procedures, and a set of provisions that apply to law enforcement. The first three provisions apply to state government; the first two specifically to hiring…1. The Department of Administration shall register and…

Back up a dump truck! However, the various misinformed assertions about the Governor’s Executive Order are quickly disposed of: Racial profiling – N/A Scapegoating – N/A Hate – N/A Political grandstanding for campaign purposes – Humorous and N/A As are these: National origin, color of skin, accent – N/A Taking the law into one’s own…

The ways in which communities congeal are comprehensible, and although we should lament the development unto primacy of identity politics, it is understandable that people get sucked into them. That said, I still have difficulty empathizing with this sort of thing, said (this time) in response to the governor’s recent moves against illegal immigration: “Are…

Ray Henry of the Associated Press has a preview of the changes to immigration policy that Governor Donald Carcieri plans to announce today… Gov. Don Carcieri plans to sign an executive order Thursday forcing prison officials and state police to identify illegal immigrants in state custody and requiring that state agencies take other steps to…

March 6 was the one year anniversary of the “raid” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Michael Bianco Incorporated in New Bedford. Remember that managers at the factory (allegedly) did not just knowingly hire undocumented immigrants but would helpfully direct applicants (allegedly) down the street to obtain (allegedly) fake documents as needed. In researching related…