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State Rep. Peter Palumbo Pushing for Immigration Crackdown in Rhode Island
Friday, May 21, 2010


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State Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-R.I.
This is a rush transcript from "Your World With Neil Cavuto," May 20, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

NEIL CAVUTO, ANCHOR: Meanwhile, unload on Arizona, Democrats give you a standing ovation. It happened to the Mexican president today in Congress.

But my next guest is a Democrat who’s not standing for it at all. He’s pushing a bill in Rhode Island that pretty much mirrors what Arizona is doing.

Peter Palumbo is state a representative there.

Representative, what are you trying to do?

PETER PALUMBO, D-R.I. STATE REPRESENTATIVE: Neil, I’m just trying to show support for our brethren in Arizona. And I put a bill in that mirrors the Arizona law.

I put an act in, in 2008 which was the Taxpayer and Citizens Protection Act, which was the same bill that Arizona put in back then. And I just think it’s a shame that we would have other cities in the country that would — would talk about boycotting a state for merely trying to protect themselves.

CAVUTO: So, when you’re addressing — of course, in — in Arizona, Representative, what they have been talking about, probably and largely, the illegal immigrants are Hispanic most of the time. In Rhode Island, what’s the issue?

PALUMBO: Mm-hmm.

We have a — we have a — you know, you don’t need to be a border community to — a border state to have problems with illegals. I have been working on this issue for a number of years now. And we have somewhere in the vicinity of 40,000 illegal aliens in our state. The — the effect of that is — is somewhere between 150 million to 350 million in taxpayer dollars each year that we’re spending on illegal aliens. That’s either incarceration or hospitalization or...

CAVUTO: So, let me ask you, Representative — I understand, sir. So, when the president of Mexico...


PALUMBO: Sure.

CAVUTO: ...tells — and gets a standing ovation for this — that he’s doing everything he can to address this, you don’t seem to be buying it.

PALUMBO: It’s an outrage. I mean, it’s just — it’s an absolute outrage, when they have laws that are stricter than ours as far as illegal aliens going into their country, and they’re upset because we have a — because there are Mexicans going — crossing the border and going back to their own country. I don’t understand it. I really don’t. This merely codifies existing law.

(CROSSTALK)

CAVUTO: What kind of support are you getting, Representative, for this?

PALUMBO: Well, it’s difficult. I have a lot of progressives in Rhode Island. But I have at least a dozen co-sponsors to this bill.

And I’m hoping that, with the media coverage that we have been getting...

CAVUTO: All right.

PALUMBO: And, by the way, thank God for Fox News, because you see a lot of the other stations who are putting the minority comments on this bill. And you know that there’s a large majority of people in support of this and what they’re doing in Arizona.

CAVUTO: Well, we have the bill there for everyone to read.

Representative, thank you very much

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593336,00.html

I will have to call this guy come Monday and compliment his actions

Good for State Rep. Peter Palumbo of Rhode Island! This proves you do not have to be Republican to be a Patriot -- Patriots come in all sizes, shapes, male, female, all colors, all creeds, Democrats and Republican and decline to state... What is most important is that any politician is a patriot with full allegiance to the United States of American and We the People!