Thank you, Governor Carcieri. Your courage in making this decision re illegal immigrants is to be applauded!! The problem is not sending them home but HOW they are when they get there. Is there some way we could help them THERE without giving them the false impression that they can come here, live off our taxes and make more than we do with all their benefits. Their home country puts people in jail for illegally entering. STAY TOUGH! Too many people have come here legally to pander to those who don't.

Do you know how much you are affecting the entire community? Your law wasn't just a challenge created for "illegal immigrants", it was a challenge to the entire Latin American community. You took a step back in time and you're only going to cause the resurection of racism. The vigil incident and many others that have occured have been completely unnecessary. This is ridiculous and insane, will you ever reconsider? Will you ever think about anything else but your own pocket? Will you take into account your people, or will you just let us die off, become homeless or be arrested for looking for a dream? Will you continue making families choose between food, clothes, rent and bills because they don't have enough to pay all of them? Why are you doing this to us, your people, the ones that gave you what you have today?! From my point f view you should be overthrown because all you've caused is chaos within the state, very few agree with you and that's not the way a governor should be. Just because your state is in deficit doesn't mean that you have to do all of this.

I thank you, Governor Carcieri for taking a stand against illegal immigrants. None of us are against immigration if it is LEGAL. They would have us believe we are racists, but that is to be expected, now that their "free ride" is going to be over. We, the taxpaying CITIZENS of this country, have finally become aware that this problem must be addressed, and immediately! Now if only the Federal Government would do their job and help implement change, but until they do, the States themselves need to do it! Unfortunately, we taxpaying CITIZENS cannot come to the State House and support you.....we are to busy earning a living to support the illegals and welfare frauds.

I thank you, Governor Carcieri for taking a stand against illegal immigrants. None of us are against immigration if it is LEGAL. They would have us believe we are racists, but that is to be expected, now that their "free ride" is going to be over. We, the taxpaying CITIZENS of this country, have finally become aware that this problem must be addressed, and immediately! Now if only the Federal Government would do their job and help implement change, but until they do, the States themselves need to do it! Unfortunately, we taxpaying CITIZENS cannot come to the State House and support you.....we are to busy earning a living to support the illegals and welfare frauds.

if these folk dont belong in the country,we need to try too make them citizens so they can begin too pay taxes and help the enconmy.

I do not understand the concern of minorities regarding this. Only those who are not legal here would be affected and they are the ones who should be made to leave. If minorities are shielding illegal relatives or friends, they are part of the problem as well. So is that why so many minorites are against the governor's order?

Governor Carcieri. The divisiveness of your order aside, I want you to explain how this will NOT promote civil rights violations in Rhode Island, and I want to know if you have considered the constitutional problems that this state will now face with vigilantes like the store owner who illegally demanded to see someone's social security card a few weeks ago. I bring to you one example of what has happened BEFORE your order - I am a white male. Several years ago I was driving in Providence at night with two hispanic friends. (One was Puerto Rican born, by the way, making him a full fledged American as much as you and I). I was stopped by the police for a reason i am not too sure of, but they asked for the IDs only of the other two gentlemen in the car. If something like this happened before your divisive act, how will you react upon knowing that your order has increased this type of persecution and discrimination? Or, is this act all about using a hot button issue to bring people over to your side?

What about all those who are otherwise law obiders and pay their taxes, own property and are raising families and hard workers. Don't those people get a chance? I think each case should be judge individually. They are just trying to find a way to survive like everyone else since they were probably penniless in their own countries which forced them to uproot themselves from their family, friends and everything familiar, risking their lives to go a country where they are unwanted, don't know the culture or the language. Why would someone do that unless they were desperate. This country used to welcome everyone. What happened?

I moved to L.A. from Rhode Island in 1989. If any of your constituants think RI is in trouble from illegal immigration, send them here!

My question: What took you so long?

The U.S. welcomes all who come here legally, April. Our parents and grandparents worked too hard to get here legally, learn the language and the culture. This is what we expect of others. An immigrant who did not go through the legal process is commiting a crime. Criminal behavior should not be tolerated.

Governor, your stand on immigrants seems to be of a piece with your lack of compassion and understanding of the plight of the poor. Your budget cuts hurt those who have no power and no resources and your comments are, at the least, insensitive. Why attack immigrants for costing us money while giving high paying state jobs to colleagues and tax breaks to the rich. It is misleading to Rhode Islanders to imply that the budget can be balanced if only the poor, the elderly, the immigrants, someone else stops cheating the system.

I want to know exactly where the govenor gets his figures to say so positively that illegal immigrants are such a drain on Rhode Island's resources. No credible agency has any real idea, but he seems to know so much!
or is he using this illegal immigration issue as a cover to redirect us against the real reasons the state is so broke? The corruption and mismanagement of funds.
I would further ask has anyone done anything to figure out how much it will cost the state to round up all these desperados?
Also I would point out to all who suggest that "legal" people have nothing to fear, you are correct, but looking down the street can you pick the illegals from the legals? or are blonde, blue eyed arians the only one's who won't be harrassed to provide proof of citizenship when they go to the store?

Governor Carceri: Know that we appreciate your service. Please continue your push for your policies. The General Assembly is short-sighted and puppets at the hands of the unions. We have had enough of them. We are with you 100%!

When I applied for my current job, I was required to show a license, social security card, and submit to a backround check and drug testing. I show proof of residency to drive a car, vote, fly internationally.

I do not consider these to be profiling or racism. It is living in a country with laws.

Illegal immigration is a slap in the face to legal immigrants, such as my grandparents, who worked so hard and sacrificed so much to become legal Americans.

The governor's responsibility is to the legal poor in our state, whose programs and resources are partly drained by illegal use of them.

I commend the Govenor's action. Too many of the illegals here work under the table and collect social services which means there are fewer dollars available for our poor citizens.
Latinos who have come here tell me that many cannot assimilate because multiple unrelated individuals (12, 15 or more)live together in order for housing to be affordable and the communities have become so large that they are rarely around English speakers to learn the language in order to become citizens. I am sure this is what the schools are experiencing.

Governor. I applaud you for wanting to uphold the law instead of looking the other way. If illegal immigrants want to stay in the US then they should start the process of legalizing themselves to be able to do that. The law is the law is the law.
My mother always called RI the "welfare state". I have OBGYN friends that say mothers get off of the airplanes from their contries and into our hospitals just because RI has such wonderful, free healthcare, etc. A law needs to be passed that gives permission to the school systems and hospitals to confirm the legal status of the person(s) they teach or treat. That's simple!

MR Governor, Carcieri.
I have guilty feelings, because if i know what you will done to my people, never give you my vote.

Im a bussines Woman in RI for 20 years,citizens for 30 years, and i allway vote an elections.

So I hope you change you mine, and think about the economy for us.

and dont let the people keep move to another States.

Thanyou for list our voice.

Maria Castillo

Let me keep this comment short and sweet. I'm from Delaware and I can't put into words how proud I am of you Governor Carcieri. I only wish we had some leadership here in Delaware to free our State of the 40,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS we have here. These ILLEGAL ALIENS have got to learn it is a privilege to enter this Country. IT IS NOT A RIGHT! All the VERY BEST, Governor Carcieri!

I'm in HR and must verify ALL new workers. Both sets of my grandparents came to this country legally. When there was a need for translation, my father had to stay out of school to translate for his parents. The was no one worrying about having someone available to interpret for them. They couldn't phone anyone and push #2. They paid taxes, lost their home in the depression and sent their sons to WW2. There is no reason why people with a dream can't dream - legally. The money isn't coming from the poor or handicapped or elderly, its coming from people who are obtaining it under false pretenses. They are taking the money away from those citizens and legal residents who truly deserve it. Thank you Governor Carcieri. And to those of our Senators and Representatives who oppose this, remeber it's an election year. Hopefully the citizens of our wonderful will fill in the other blank on election day.

I think that it is important to note that studies show that more than half of the people that are currently in this country illegaly, came here legally. In other words, they stayed after their Visa's expired.

There is a misconception that the answer lies in closing borders...the numbers disprove that. Comprehensive immigration reform is going to require a lot more thought than just a band-aid.

I wonder if next time I get stop by a police officer in pawtucket they gonna ask me for paper just because I have brown skin,I want to see thet to hapend I wonder if the police have enough money
to be preparte for the lawsuits,or they gonna go don carciery and ask for the money,or when they arest those"illegal alliens"if the federal goverment will refund our money back because the prison will over fill,one question,if you go in the street can you tell who legal or illegal?