Hispanic leaders protest Carceiri’s immigration edict

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, April 19, 2008

By Paul Grimaldi

Journal Staff Writer


PROVIDENCE — Members of the state’s Hispanic community yesterday gathered at the State House once again to protest Governor Carcieri’s recent order cracking down on illegal immigration.

The issue has stirred up passions on both sides of the immigration debate, even prompting members of the Hispanic community to briefly occupy a State House office during a protest earlier this month.

In contrast to that boisterous protest, yesterday’s gathering on the south steps of the State House was marked most often by murmured prayers and somber calls for divine intervention.

“The anti-immigrant sentiment that swept across this state and this nation is going to cause a lot of families to be broken up,â€