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Help Pass E-Verify for a better RI.

Let’s help RI’s most needy families find decent work.  Tell your Reps (http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Email/RepEmailListDistrict.asp) and Senators (http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Email/SenEmailListDistrict.asp) to vote for E-Verify to make jobs available to our citizens and legal immigrants.  Rhode Island's income inequality has a lot to do with its' appetite for immigrants, legal or not. We have an over-population of lower skilled workers that is fueled by this appetite. With that over-population comes expected behavior. Employers hire cheaper workers and provide fewer benefits and reduce spending on capital improvement. Lower incomes produce a demand for more social services. The cycle continues. I believe that we in RI are facing a growing problem with Balkanization fueled by illegal immigration.

     What to do? E-Verify would reduce the practice of hiring Illegal Immigrants. This would help both the legal immigrants and the so-called native population. We need to use common sense and stop the non-sense. Our elected leaders continually talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. Yet they have bent over backwards to aid and abet the illegal alien community grow and prosper in Rhode Island. Gina Raimondo now wants give illegal aliens driver's licenses so they can more easily get to work. Yes, that would be aiding and abetting illegal aliens. Perhaps U.S. Attorney Peter Nerohna might be interested? Nah, didn’t think so. This attitude perpetuates and amplifies our income equality.

     P.S.  Don't know your reps?  Click here: https://sos.ri.gov/vic/ , enter your info in the upper box, click "SEARCH".  All your elected representation will be displayed.  Please use the links below to link to your FACEBOOK and TWITTER pages.  Thanks!

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