Immigration

RI Governor 2010 – Immigration Reference Chart

By Marc Comtois | June 24, 2010 |

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**…

The First County of Aztlan

By Justin Katz | June 15, 2010 |

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…

Spend to Punish

By Justin Katz | June 8, 2010 |

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…

Re: The Legislative Leadership Is Not Nearly As Powerful as our Rank and File Legislators Let Them Be

By Carroll Andrew Morse | June 2, 2010 |

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…

Speaker Fox Does a Volte Face on Hearing Palumbo’s Arizona-style Illegal Immigration Bill (But the Rally is Still on Thursday)

By Monique Chartier | May 25, 2010 |

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…

“Arizona Sing-A-Long”: The Importance of Reading

By Monique Chartier | May 23, 2010 |

(… 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.

Reform? or Abolish? What is the Real Goal?

By Monique Chartier | May 2, 2010 |

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…

The Citizen, the Legal, and the Illegal

By Justin Katz | April 29, 2010 |

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…

The Immigration on Which We Agree

By Justin Katz | April 25, 2010 |

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…

Two Troubling Aspects of President Obama’s Reaction to the New Arizona Illegal Immigration Law

By Monique Chartier | April 24, 2010 |

… 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. ……