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Monday, March 21, 2011

At Brown forum, speakers urge support for immigrants

Many people are urging support for immigrants, but many are not. The same story all over the country. - - Donna Poisl

By Karen Lee Ziner, Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE –– The phenomenon of immigration should be “welcomed and embraced, not feared or rejected,” the Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, bishop of Providence, said at a Brown University symposium on Saturday.

The daylong symposium, “Immigrants and Immigration in the 21st Century,” centered on a new public opinion survey of Rhode Islanders’ views on immigration issues, conducted by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, and the John Hazen White Public Opinion Laboratory at Brown.
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