Amidst the conversations and debates around Governor-elect Chafee, the immigration issue was touched upon along with a proposed food and clothing tax, among other items.
Woonsocket Representative Brien and Senator Cote are submitting a bill again this year that will use the federal government's E-Verify database in an effort to enforce immigration status checks by private employers.
Although the bill has passed in the House, the Senate is only promising a hearing on it this year, nothing more.
And hosting the Arizona-like immigration reform proposal, Cranston Representative Palumbo wants to give the police every power to detain individuals, stopped lawfully, who does not have immigration paperwork and is suspected of being in the country illegally.
Governor-elect Chafee has promised that there will be a rescinding of a former Governor's order on illegal immigration, even though Palumbo will push to have some of the language remain intact; in particular that the State departments, agencies and vendors use E-Verify and help enforce federal immigration laws.
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