Thread: R.I.: Governor’s panel on immigration order meets tomorrow

Governor’s panel on immigration order meets tomorrow

01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, July 31, 2008

By Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE — A panel monitoring implementation of Governor Carcieri’s executive order on illegal immigration will hold a hastily convened meeting tomorrow to discuss members’ concerns that they were unaware that federal immigration agents were raiding state courthouses midway through the panel’s first meeting on July 15.

In an e-mail sent on Tuesday to panel members, Vice Chairwoman Deborah A. Smith of the Governor’s Office of External Affairs said the meeting is being convened “because of the unfortunate controversy surrounding our first meeting earlier in the month, and the many questions left unanswered as we face the need to protect and serve the legal immigrant community of Rhode Island.â€

I hope Gov. Carcieri stands his ground, sticks up for citizens and legal immigrants, and does not succumb to the whining and histrionics of the pro-illegal alien crowd.

Please call the governor's office and voice your support for his common sense measures:

http://www.governor.ri.gov/contact/

Chair of immigration panel urges members to stay

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, August 2, 2008

By Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writer

Retired Adm. Joseph Strasser speaks to the governor’s advisory panel charged with monitoring illegal immigration.


The Providence Journal / Steve Szydlowski
PROVIDENCE — The chair of a special governor’s advisory panel said he was satisfied that a federal immigration sweep at Rhode Island courthouses was not deliberately timed to coincide with the panel’s first meeting on July 15, without the group’s knowledge.

The panel is monitoring “unintended consequencesâ€

[quote]Rabbi Alan Flam asked that the group stop using the term “illegal immigrant,â€