Thread: Dozens arrested in immigration raids on RI courthouses

Protest all you want you are causing more and more citizens to join the Anti Illegal immgration movement by helping expose your rediculous claims of breaking up families,poor irresponsible IA's are being treated inhumanely,your all a bunch of racists etc,etc,etc !

IA's broke up their families when they ILLEGALLY entered our country,leaving some of their children,wives,husbands in their home countries while some of you forget about them and start NEW families here and it is NOT citizens responsibility !

Originally Posted by Bulldogger

Every IA they arrest brings opportunity for a jobless American Citizen.

Unemployment Rates for States - May 2008p
http://www.bls.gov/web/laumstrk.htm

46 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 6.6
47 CALIFORNIA 6.8
48 MISSISSIPPI 6.9
49 ALASKA 7.0
50 RHODE ISLAND 7.2
51 MICHIGAN 8.5

What else do we need to know??

The raids sparked an angry protest outside ICE headquarters in Providence on Tuesday night. Activist Juan Garcia said the raids, which occurred in courthouses in Providence, Cranston, Warwick, Newport and South Kingstown, was an outgrowth of an executive order by Gov. Don Carcieri cracking down on illegal immigration.

EXACTLY, Juan Garcia! That's how the law is suppose to work: laws are passed and then enforced! Oh, excuse me, is it different in Mexico? Hmmm.

Welcome to America!

Enforcing our Immigration Laws and Securing National Borders are not partisan, divisive, or polarizing issues! In current polls vast majority of United States Citizens want our Immigration Laws Enforced and our National Borders Secured. Politicians without their own or their Elitist Political "Contributor’s" self serving agenda support their citizens and not their Elitist "Contributors".

Just follow the money "my friends(sorry)". The "political contributors" will get their "cheap labor" and not have to furnish any "benefits" because all the "benefits" for the ILLEGALS will be furnished by the taxpayers enforced and implemented by "our politicians" and their "men"(see Johnny Satan)!!

Good job judiciary of RI.

This is exactly what California is trying to get a way with. IF they pass and Arnold signs AB 2076 it will PROHIBIT cities, counties and the state from using the E-verify system.

And another sanctuary state falls - pretty soon they'll realize that there are no safe places anymore and then they will leave in droves from all across the USA.
Enforcement obviously works - now we have the momentum.

Originally Posted by lateone

And another sanctuary state falls - pretty soon they'll realize that there are no safe places anymore and then they will leave in droves from all across the USA.
Enforcement obviously works - now we have the momentum.

Between enforcement and the poor economy we may see a big shift.

Dozens arrested in raids at courthouses

08:25 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 16, 2008

BY KAREN LEE ZINER and FELICE J. FREYER

Journal Staff Writers

Leonardo Tornes waits outside the ICE headquarters building in Providence last night.

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The Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez
PROVIDENCE — Federal immigration agents and state police raided six Rhode Island courthouses yesterday, arresting dozens of people employed by two contractors hired by the state. The detainees are all believed to be maintenance workers.

The raid led to a noisy demonstration by at least 100 people outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at 200 Dyer St. last night. Police officers arrived as the crowd grew; at one point the police pushed a line of demonstrators across the parking lot.

Some in the crowd were relatives of the arrestees. Others included clergy and at least one state representative, Grace Diaz, and members of immigrant advocacy groups.

Leonardo Tornes said his sister, Francesca Tornes, an undocumented worker from Mexico, was arrested at the Kent County Courthouse.

“She has two children — one and five years old,â€

RHODE ISLANDERS FOR IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT
R.I.I.L.E.
July 2008 - Issue 7

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Central Falls, RI 02863
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SILENCE IS CONSENT - LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

E-VERIFY. It is a violation of U.S. Immigration Law to employ anyone who is in this country illegally. E-Verify is an electronic verification system, provided by the U.S. government, for employers to determine if an employee is, indeed, a legal U.S. resident. On the federal level E-Verify is a voluntary program, but there are efforts to make it mandatory. S2091, the Rhode Island E-Verify Bill, with its House companion Bill H7107, would make this verification program mandatory for R.I. employers.

The R.I. House passed E-Verify in 2007 and 2008. In both years, 27 senators co-sponsored the E-Verify legislation, and the support from the citizens of Rhode Island was overwhelming. Yet, for the second consecutive year, Senator M. Teresa Paiva-Weed refused to allow S2091 out of Committee, thereby killing the Bill on the last day of the legislative session.

Three items of concern about the Bill were brought out by the Senate Labor Committee’s Legislative Counsel at the second hearing of S2091 on June 11: the constitutionality of the fines for employers, the issue of due process, and severability. Sen. Marc Cote, sponsor of S2091, and Rep. Jon Brien, sponsor of H7107, worked every minute for the next ten days to make the necessary changes to the Bill so that it could be brought back to the Committee for their vote and sent to the Senate for a full vote on the Senate floor.

Senator Cote and Representative Brien kept all parties up to date on their progress so that they could meet every condition and every deadline—and they did what they set out to do. They made the changes, and they made the deadline. Senator Cote also vetted the proposed revisions with the Department of Labor and Training (the department that would be responsible for monitoring compliance with the state mandate), and DLT did not have any objections to the proposed changes to the legislation.

Senate Majority Leader, M. Teresa Paiva-Weed, claimed 1) that the challenges to S2091 came so late in the legislative session that there was not enough time to make the changes and have the Bill proceed through the required process, and 2) that she had a concern about the constitutionality of the Bill. NOT TRUE. If the leadership at the General Assembly WANTS something, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE IN THE SESSION, and the issue on constitutionality HAD BEEN REMEDIED. After every condition had been met, and leadership didn’t have any other excuse to use, the truth came out. On the last day of the session, June 21, Senator Cote had a conversation with Senate President Montalbano, who said that he would not override the Senate Majority Leader in her decision not to let the E-Verify Bill go forward. That was it. A very important piece of legislation was killed by one person because she did not want the Bill to pass—and a floor vote in the Senate would certainly have passed S2091.

Senator Paiva-Weed has demonstrated, yet again, exactly whose interests she is representing: illegal aliens and the U.S. employers who want cheap labor and don’t care how many laws they break to get it.
She chose to invoke the power of her office to totally disregard the rights of citizens to participate in their government and to strip our senators of their duty to represent those citizens. She could have allowed the democratic process to work and enact legislation supported by an overwhelming majority of Rhode
Island citizens and both chambers of the General Assembly. But, instead, she chose to demonstrate that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Questions: 1) Do all the citizens of Jamestown and Newport agree with Senator Paiva-Weed’s support of illegal immigration? 2) Do all the citizens in Senator Montalbano’s district agree with his decision to allow Senator Paiva-Weed to support illegal immigration in total disregard of the citizens of Rhode Island?

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