Immigration
Based on Andrew’s reporting as well as the ProJo and the GoLocalProv accounts, here is a quick reference chart detailing the 2010 RI Gubonatorial candidates’ stance on four key Immigration related issues: Governor Carcieri’s 2008 Executive Order, E-Verify, in-state college tuition for the illegal/undocumented, and the Arizona Immigration law. Issue Chafee Lynch Giroux* Caprio Block**…
This is stunning, and it ought to be thrown in the faces of those North Easterners who point their sanctimonious, oh-so-tolerant fingers at Arizona. Swaths of land within our borders are being closed to Americans because the invasion of illegal-immigrant smugglers, human traffickers, and drug runners from Mexico has simply made them too dangerous. Perhaps…
In response to the Providence City Council’s useless declaration condemning Arizona’s controversial immigration law, Domenick Fabrizio, of Cumberland, has a suggestion: Since this city council wants to use economics to punish Arizona, my wife and I have decided to draw an economic line in the sand. We’ve decided to boycott organizations in Providence that we…
According to Karen Lee Ziner of the Projo, the e-verify bill that was recommitted to the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee last evening had 19 co-sponsors, exactly half of our 38-member Senate…[Senator Marc Cote] said he felt so strongly about, and had such support for his bill (19 co-sponsors) that he decided to invoke a…
Question for State House observers: is it true that this is the first time that a bill has been pulled after it was scheduled for a hearing? House Speaker Gordon D. Fox decided Monday that Rep. Peter Palumbo’s controversial Arizona-style bill on immigration will not be heard this session. “The speaker opposes this and feels…
(… the AZ law before commenting on it). H/T NewsBuster’s Noel Sheppard. On a slightly more serious note, Rep Peter Palumbo’s bill to bring the “Arizona” – aka, the US federal – immigration law to Rhode Island will be heard in the House Judiciary Committee late Thursday afternoon.
A couple of points for commentators and advocates who are happily parroting the lies of the msm (Heather MacDonald at City Journal sets the record straight) to vilify the new Arizona law and, purportedly, to demand reform of our federal laws. 1.) The Arizona law was carefully written to mirror federal immigration law, which had…
In her Providence Journal column, yesterday, Froma Harrop inadvertently illustrated the problem that America has resolving the illegal immigration problem. Regarding Arizona’s new immigration law: Stopping brown people in the street is not the way to address the problem. The great majority of illegal immigrants come for work. Though they shouldn’t be here, these are…
Amity Shlaes’ Saturday op-ed on immigration gives the impression of suggesting something controversial regarding a way in which immigration could help to save Social Security, but when the reader gets to the following, it turns out to be something not very controversial at all: Here’s where demography morphs from enemy to friend. Suppose we adopt…
… and all the more troubling because, as the Arizona law is a carbon copy of federal law, they reflect his views on the issue of illegal immigration. The first is the basis of his objection. Our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. ……