Tag: Immigration And Customs Enforcement
Wyatt Detention Facility board chairperson resigns
The volunteer chairperson of the governing board for Rhode Island’s only privately operated detention facility has resigned after six years, citing his new senior...
Police respond after anti-ICE protesters enter Citizens Bank lobby in Providence
PROVIDENCE – Police were called Monday morning to disperse roughly two dozen protesters who briefly entered the lobby of the downtown Citizens Financial Group...
‘The impacts are everywhere.’ Federal cuts devastate nonprofits
Rhode Island’s nonprofits are in turmoil. This important segment of the economy – 16% of the workforce – has an uncertain future and the...
Smiley reaffirms Providence’s policy not to assist ICE with executive order
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley on Monday issued an executive order codifying an existing city policy that prohibits police officers from cooperating with...
For local leaders, ‘sanctuary’ has become a word to avoid
Rhode Island and its capital city may have adopted policies that limit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities in many cases,...
Smiley won’t declare Providence a ‘sanctuary city,’ but policy unchanged
PROVIDENCE – As a result of the crackdown on illegal immigration by the Trump administration, local officials throughout the country are again faced with...
2 men indicted in credit card skimming scheme
PROVIDENCE – Juan Jose Rodriguez-Castro and Wilberd Armando Reyes-Castro were indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 1 in an alleged scheme to...
In a nation of immigrants, dignity should be accorded all
While the current national conflict on the immigration front has not brought forcible parent and child breakups to our corner of southern New England,...
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