Immigration
There is at least one glitch in the comprehensive municipality-by-municipality data that the Projo has been providing on foreclosures. According to a John Castellucci story that appeared in the April 15 Projo, there were 108 foreclosures in Pawtucket between January and mid-March of 2008 and 172 in all of 2007. That calls into question the…
Matt Jerzyk of RI Future believes that declines in student population in Central Falls and Providence are due to foreclosures…Speaking of questionable analysis, it is absolutely outrageous to me that anyone can get away with saying that significant drops in school enrollment in Central Falls and Providence are a result of the right-wing’s anti-immigrant activism…
Over at RI Future yesterday, Matt Jerzyk wrote…When the immigration debate becomes about “them” and the “them” is largely determined by race and ethnicity, then racism is a clear component of the debate.But how about the definition of “them” in other areas of public debate? In a post from just two days earlier, Paul Bovenzi…
Golf clap to the ProJo for providing some clarity on the terminology games being played with the word “immigration” (emphasis mine): [F]ew Americans oppose immigration or immigrants per se. After all, every citizen is an immigrant or a descendent of one (Native Americans, by the way, came from Siberia) and is well aware of that…
Projo news columnist Charles Bakst suggests that supporters of Rhode Island Governor Donald Carceri should be troubled by the recent discovery that many illegal immigrants were employed by firms with state contracts…Some taxpayers who admire [Governor Carcieri] on immigration must have been disappointed and puzzled by the possibility that so many illegal immigrants could be…
Mayor David Cicilline stated on the Helen Glover Show this morning that the Providence Police Department informs ICE of suspects in custody before they are released from court. He is flatly contradicting his own Chief of Police. But [Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman] later acknowledged that Providence police don’t do any investigation on their own…
Two recent newspaper articles have suggested that the results of the Rhode Island College Bureau of Government Research and Services poll released on July 1 imply that immigration enforcement is not an issue of interest to Rhode Islanders; one article was from a source with an established track record of writing thoughtful, long-form news-analysis pieces,…
The general public keeps hearing from various quarters that immigration is a federal matter, therefore local police authorities shouldn’t take any initiative in enforcing immigration laws. That refrain brings to mind Amanda Milkovits‘ story from the Projo of two Saturdays ago…At dusk, a dozen Providence police officers and state police troopers in unmarked cruisers drove…
Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama had this to say yesterday, in an address to the League of United Latin American Citizens in Washington D.C…I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President — not only because we have…
Hey, you. The one who was part of the 75% percent of Rhode Islanders who said they approve of Governor Carcieri’s E-verify Executive Order (and presumably the E-verify bill that just got killed by Senator Theresa Paiva-Weed). Guess what? The Journal’s Steve Peoples and/or Cynthia Needham think you were just confused…or something…by the question (the…
