Immigration
Some will accuse me of defending the indefensible, but my piece in today’s Providence Journal argues on behalf of Governor Carcieri’s cuts to RIte Aide for illegal immigrants. Being welcoming and compassionate is one thing, but are policies send the message far and wide that our invitation is for them to stay, and to remain…
Dan Yorke’s been on this for a couple of days, so most of you have heard the same clips from the ICE as Gestapo “press conference” at St. Theresa’s church that I have. Shameless. Despicable. The gut-punch is the suicide of David De La Roca, but the heart-tug pictures are all of the children of…
Andrew notes that marrying the future mother of his child would have put Mynor Montufar on the path to citizenship. The various considerations that go into figuring out why that was a road not taken highlight the fact that, while not all decisions follow rational thought processes, incentive structures still apply broadly. As Andrew describes…
I’m going to offer a quasi-correction here, to prevent Anchor Rising from propagating any misunderstandings created by Karen Lee Ziner‘s confusing reporting in today’s Projo of the story of Mynor Montifar, Carmen Marrero and their daughter Marisol. Puerto Rico is part of the United States. That means…Saying that “Carmen Marrero is here legally from Puerto…
Justin was correct, the “first father” in Rhode Island in 2008, Mynor Montufar, was arrested by immigration officials (ICE). ProJo account is here. Two days after local media featured Mynor Montufar and Carmen L. Marrero as the parents of Rhode Island’s first baby of 2008, federal immigration agents arrested Montufar at his apartment. Now Montufar…
Although I’m not in a position to provide links right now, I wanted to mention something that I just heard on WPRO: The unwed, nineteen-year-old father of Rhode Island’s first-born baby of 2008 was just taken in under suspicion of being an illegal alien. Apparently, a housemate of the young couple was found dead (perhaps…
Tipped off by 7 to 7, I went over to the U.S. Census Bureau web site, which has just released population estimates up to July 2007 (raw data here). From the AP summary: Rhode Island is losing residents at a faster clip than any other state in the nation. New population estimates being released today…
Democrat State Rep. Peter Palumbo and Democrat Sen. Christopher Maselli have filed new legislation aimed at curbing illegal immigration in Rhode Island. The legislation, a revamped version of a bill that died during the last General Assembly, aims to tighten state laws regarding issuance of driver’s licenses and to make it unlawful for businesses or…
Today, the ProJo delves into a report published last week by the Center for Immigration Studies: [T}he survey, based on U.S. Census data, found that immigration to Rhode Island increased by 61 percent between 2000 and 2007 and that immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up 17.7 percent of the state’s population. By contrast, that…
Yesterday, Dan Yorke played a clip of Bishop Thomas Tobin on one of the Sunday news shows (which does not appear to be online, yet) discussing immigration. I certainly wouldn’t claim to be more Catholic than the bishop, to modify a phrase, let alone the College of Bishops, but it seems to me that his…