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05-19-2010, 08:19 PM #1
Dem. Legislator Files Arizona-Like Immigration Bill in R I
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Dem. Legislator Files Arizona-Like Immigration Bill in Rhode Island
A Democratic state legislator in Rhode Island has filed a bill similar to the immigration law recently enacted in Arizona. As reported by The Providence Journal:
State Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-District 16, Cranston, has filed a bill that largely copies a controversial Arizona law considered the toughest immigration legislation in the country.
Palumbo's bill, like the Arizona law, makes failure to carry alien registration cards a state crime, and requires police to question people "where reasonable suspicion exists" that the person is unlawfully in the United States.
The bill, H 8142, filed Tuesday, also targets people who hire illegal immigrants, or who knowingly transport them.
The legislation is not solely a reaction to the Arizona law, as Palumbo has introduced similar legislation previously focusing more on cooperation with the federal government.
In a press release issued in March regarding a prior version of the law, Palumbo stressed the burdens illegal aliens place on state resources:
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05-20-2010, 01:54 AM #2
You Go R.I. and all are Dems except one repub who have co-sponsored this Bill.Looks like it may very well pass.
"A Government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have"* Thomas Jefferson
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