Immigration
This is kind of interesting. According to a Tuesday posting to the General Assembly website, the Rhode Island Senate will hear the in-state tuition for illegal immigrants bill (S0321) on the same day that the House Finance committee does (tomorrow, May 26) . The House hearing (H5245) was posted last week. Supporters of the bill…
Let me start with the caveat that I didn’t attend Brown’s immigration symposium convened to discuss a poll (that I’ve already touched on) and am relying on this morning’s report from the ProJo. That out of the way, stepping back, it really is remarkable, if unsurprising, that a supposed institution of higher learning would hold…
I certainly appreciate Marc’s fair-minded and temperamentally conservative response to Governor Chafee’s budget proposal, but I think he slips into a political trap not unlike the practice of spending budgets on pet projects and then looking to debt to fund such necessities as road repair. It is insufficient to go through a budget proposals as…
Brown U. has done a poll on immigration and is framing it as a look at a “deeply divided” RI public (and the ProJo is parroting it). The actual poll numbers tell a different story. It doesn’t look like Rhode Islanders are “divided” so much as they are just plain confused. First, it looks like…
… so buckle down. Arizona on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging that Washington has failed to secure the state’s porous border with Mexico. … “Because the federal government has failed to protect the citizens … of Arizona, I am left with no other choice,” Brewer told reporters at a news conference…
A source who was at Tuesday’s night hearing of the Labor Committee of the Rhode Island House of Representatives informs me that the decision “to hold for further study” the bill that would write former Governor Donald Carcieri’s illegal immigration executive order into law passed by a vote of only 8 – 4 (one committee…
Three high-profile bills go before their Rhode Island House of Representatives committees this week, 1) the bill, referred to the Labor Committee to be heard today, that would make the provisions of former Governor Carcieri’s executive order on illegal immigration into law, and 2 and 3) bills, referred to the Judiciary Committee to be heard…
Monique and Matt talked of illegal immigration policy and a meaningful juxtaposition of headlines on the Matt Allen Show last night. Stream by clicking here, or download it. We’re still not to our goal of funding a full-time job, by the way, so please email or call (401-835-7156) me to pledge financial support — as…
With Governor Lincoln Chafee determined to ease the way for illegal immigrants in Rhode Island society, some legislators will surely increase their attempts to affect the relevant aspects of Rhode Island law through legislation, as Rep. Peter Palumbo (D, Cranston) has promised to do: Palumbo also said he will introduce another bill, or package of…
An email from Terry Gorman, executive director of Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement, inspired a new category title, on Anchor Rising, when he sent the following email: Just received a call from Anita, a senior staff person on the Chafee transition team and she related to me that without hearing from the source the…
