Immigration
So, the Immigration Panel has found that: Governor Carcieri’s executive order on illegal immigration has created such fear throughout Rhode Island that…he [should] make a “well-publicized clarifying statement” to explain what the order does and doesn’t do. Please. The ProJo “advoticle” (advocacy piece within a news article) is full of anecdotal ‘fear’ stories of immigrants…
In some parting advice to the GOP on Fox News today [h/t the Washington Post], President George Bush falls into the error of many others who have commented or reported on the subject. He leaves out that one critical word. And we should be open-minded about big issues like immigration reform, because if we’re viewed…
I may be misunderstanding him, but it appears that Rhode Island elementary and secondary education commissioner Peter McWalters believes that Rhode Island should seek to attract illegal immigrants to our state in order to educate their children: In Rhode Island, McWalters said, “We’re not in agreement that these kids are worth it because we are…
Yeah, I’m aware that a politically noisy segment of our society views immigration more as a social work process than a set of policies intended for the benefit of the country, but Dori Segal and Brian Lee Crowley have a worthy (if politically infeasible) idea: … America should immediately offer fast-track immigration to foreigners willing…
I highlight this only because I think Crowley, in his ineptitude, stumbles into an error of reason that others exhibit more subtly. Pointing to the expressed concern of Howard Weizmann, deputy director of the U.S. Office Of Personnel Management, that expanded domestic partner benefits would increase incidents of the sorts of fraud depicted in I…
Alright, so let’s allow that David Richardson pushed the envelope to an imprudent degree — that it was wrong of him to harass customers to his store for the reason that they were speaking Spanish. Mark my words: Such precedent will expand until it crowds out our freedom: Providence storeowner David C. Richardson has signed…
I don’t like John McCain’s politics. Never have. This piece from Mickey Kaus is the latest example of why: Attention Ms. Coulter: John McCain is running an ad in Spanish attacking Obama for allegedly failing to support the “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that McCain himself has said he no longer supports. … I guess McCain…
Among the factors that most impress me as indicative of the accuracy of the Roman Catholic faith is the mutual leaven of those influences that we are to consider when assessing the world in which we live. The individual conscience is sacrosanct, personal revelation possible, and compassion paramount, yet absolute truth exists, and organizational process…
Under Reverend Pastor Keith Mlyniec’s “Engaged Citizen” post, commenter Rhody observes: I love how the right has gotten so depenent on the clergy (not just Catholic, either) as an ideological enforcement agency. It should be noted, firstly, that the desire for enforcement of US immigration laws is not an exclusive commodity of the “right”, unless…
[In light of Bishop Thomas Tobin’s call yesterday for ICE to halt “mass” arrests of illegal immigrants, Pastor Mlyniec’s Engaged Citizen post of April has been moved to the top of the blog.] Dear Governor Carcieri, It seems the media has chosen to portray all the clergy in our state as standing together with one…