Remarks on immigrants raise concerns

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | May 4, 2008 

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PROVIDENCE — A nonprofit group whose board members include First Lady Sue Carcieri asserts that nearly 45 percent of all immigrants in Rhode Island — legal and illegal — lack high school diplomas and “this low-skilled cohort of immigrants to Rhode Island costs state taxpayers about $212 million per year.” “It is because such a high percentage of immigrants, legal or not, lack a quality formal education that they represent a relatively high cost to the taxpayer,” said the statement by the Ocean State Policy Research Institute. Its executive director, William Felkner, said he wrote the statement. Felkner called people who sponsor immigrants to this country “the new deadbeat dad.”

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