Mean times grip Rhode Island

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, April 13, 2008


Immigration issues took center stage at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday night. It was so crowded that many people watched the proceedings on TV outside the room.


The Providence Journal / Connie Grosch
The mean season is here.

It has settled in at the governor’s office, in the General Assembly, on the radio talk shows, wherever people meet and wherever they sit down to send off e-mails.

Last Monday, I asked Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin what reaction he’d received from joining other religious leaders in decrying Governor Carcieri’s executive order cracking down on illegal immigrants.

He reported that it was “predictably angryâ€