"RI will no longer require warrant for immigration detainers" by Michelle R. Smith | Associated Press August 16, 2014
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Corrections will no longer require a warrant before it honors immigration detainers, pulling back from a policy Governor Lincoln Chafee instituted a month ago.
Good, because ISIS is coming if not already here and it could be New Hampshire destroyed in a false flag nuclear explosion on the 13th anniversary of 9/11.
Chafee signed a new policy Thursday that applies to all executive agencies, including the Department of Public Safety, which oversees sheriffs and State Police, among others.
The new policy requires the agencies to honor detainers accompanied by judicial deportation or removal orders.
Civil libertarians and immigration advocates said Friday that the new policy sets a lower bar than the one Chafee adopted in July, when he instructed the Department of Corrections to stop honoring immigration detainers without a warrant.
That policy was put in place after US courts ruled that detainers violated civil rights and that governments that enforced them can be liable to lawsuits.
The state Department of Corrections is being sued by a US citizen who was held on a detainer. The case is pending.
The Department of Corrections used to handle most immigration detainers that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency issued.
The detainers ask local agencies to hold people up to two additional days after they otherwise would have been released following an arrest.
But after the new policy went into effect in July, advocates complained that other agencies, such as sheriffs, had stepped in without a warrant.
They asked the governor to extend the policy to all executive departments.
Steven Brown of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said they were disappointed and puzzled by the governor’s decision..
‘‘This new policy affects significantly more individuals, in terms of throwing them into this broken system.’’
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Checking those dark-skinned folk, right?
"Man stabbed during tribe’s annual meeting
A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the chest and seriously injured on tribal grounds during the Narragansett Tribe’s annual meeting, according to police. Andrew J. Smith, whose last known address was in South Kingstown, was taken to South County Hospital soon after the incident about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The Westerly Sun reported that he was transferred to Rhode Island Hospital’s trauma center and was reported in fair condition Sunday morning. Smith was stabbed in the chest during a fight, said Charlestown police Lieutenant Patrick J. McMahon. Police received numerous 911 calls on Saturday from attendees of the three-day meeting reporting disturbances, McMahon said. The tribe’s 339th annual meeting continued Sunday."
Sort of 9/11 in a nutshell when you think about it.
Checking those dark-skinned folk, right?
"Man stabbed during tribe’s annual meeting
A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the chest and seriously injured on tribal grounds during the Narragansett Tribe’s annual meeting, according to police. Andrew J. Smith, whose last known address was in South Kingstown, was taken to South County Hospital soon after the incident about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The Westerly Sun reported that he was transferred to Rhode Island Hospital’s trauma center and was reported in fair condition Sunday morning. Smith was stabbed in the chest during a fight, said Charlestown police Lieutenant Patrick J. McMahon. Police received numerous 911 calls on Saturday from attendees of the three-day meeting reporting disturbances, McMahon said. The tribe’s 339th annual meeting continued Sunday."
Sort of 9/11 in a nutshell when you think about it.
"Friends of Warwick teen who drowned seek money for funeral
Friends of a Warwick teenager who drowned last weekend turned to the Internet to raise money for his funeral. The group’s effort on gofundme.com hit its goal of $3,000 to pay for funeral expenses for Jeremiah Zarty. His friend Brenna Coppola told WPRI-TV that any money raised beyond the $3,000 mark would be used to help fly Zarty’s relatives in from Liberia, where he was born, so they can attend services for him. The 19-year-old Warwick resident drowned last weekend near the Arcadia Management Area in Exeter. A funeral service is scheduled Aug. 22 at the North Kingstown Assembly of God."
No worries about Ebola?
"State to get $681k to provide emergency food, shelter
Social service agencies in Rhode Island will get nearly $681,000 more in federal funds to help families in need with emergency food, rent, and utility payments. Providence County is being awarded $421,700. Another $259,100 is going to the Rhode Island State Set-Aside Committee, which may award money to other communities throughout the state. The funding is through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s emergency food and shelter program, which allows communities flexibility in determining where to distribute the resources. US Senator Jack Reed announced the funds allocation last week. He says the grants will help local nonprofits put food on the table and provide shelter to those who are struggling."
Related:
"Former House speaker Gordon Fox had a personal loan from a registered legislative lobbyist for several years, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. The lobbyist, Ray Rickman, confirmed the loan and said he gave it to Fox in 2009, when Fox was House majority leader. Fox became speaker in 2010. Rickman would not give details on the amount of the loan or say what it was for."
I'm happy for 'em.
"Rhode Island Ethics Commission to probe lawmaker’s beach bid
The Rhode Island Ethics Commission voted Tuesday to investigate whether a state lawmaker violated ethics rules by bidding on a contract for beach concessions. The Providence Journal reported that the commission wants to investigate bids by Representative Peter Palumbo for contracts at Scarborough, Roger Wheeler, and Misquamicut state beaches. The government watchdog group Common Cause Rhode Island filed a complaint with the Ethics Commission after reports that the Cranston Democrat bid in 2013 to host the concessions. Palumbo was the high bidder for the five-year contract but backed out, leaving David Caprio, then chairman of the Democratic Party, as the next highest bidder. Caprio then hired Palumbo to run the stands. He paid $226,640 less than Palumbo bid. State Police are investigating. Palumbo did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday (AP)."
Related: Narragansett Beer stars in new campaign ad
"Three seals released into the wild in Rhode Island
Three seals have been released back into the wild in Rhode Island after being nursed back to health at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. The aquarium brought two harp seals and a grey seal to Blue Shutters Beach in Charlestown Thursday, where they returned to the ocean. The grey seal, named Curie, was only 1 or 2 months old when it was rescued in South Kingstown in April 2013. The harp seals, Pluto and Pandora, were rescued in Maine this year. Pluto was found on Cheabeague Island on Feb. 18, while Pandora was rescued from Kinney Shores in Saco, Maine, on March 17."
"Headless animal carcasses found in Central Falls
Police in Central Falls are investigating the discovery of several headless animal carcasses. The remains of two goats and three chickens were discovered Tuesday morning along the Providence-Worcester railroad tracks near Blackstone Street. Police said the heads of the chickens were left near the bodies, but there was no sign of the goat’s head. No arrests have been made, and police declined to speculate about a motive for the mutilations."
Satanic rituals or extraterrestrial visitors?
Also see: Urn carrying Warwick woman’s ashes is stolen
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"Employee of special-ed school faces child porn charges
A Rhode Island man employed at a Canton, Mass., school for special-needs students has been charged with possessing and transferring child pornography, authorities said. Eric S. Bean, 32, of Cumberland, was arrested Friday and released on $10,000 personal recognizance, ordered to have no contact with children, not use the Internet, and receive mental health counseling, Rhode Island State Police said. Bean is employed in the IT department at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, State Police said in a statement. Though an investigation is ongoing, there is no evidence Bean had “any inappropriate contact with children,” the statement said. Officials at the school were not available for comment late Saturday."
The thought of child sex rings for elites is chilling enough, but going into this realm is beyond obscene.
Also see: CVS to sell anti-opiate drug in R.I.
State auctions off unclaimed property
A white gold ring?
