Rhode Island Governor Clamps Down on Illegal Immigrants
Rhode Island’s Governor Don Carcieri yesterday announced plans to issue executive order requiring
prison officials and state police to identify illegal immigrants in state custody and to take other steps to penalize immigration violators. According to the Associated Press, “Carcieri has already proposed cutting immigrant children, be they legal or illegal, from a state-subsidized health care plan. He has also drawn fire from some immigrant rights groups for cutting translators from the state payroll.”
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