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PROVIDENCE, R.I. U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, a national leader on immigration reform, will return to Providence this month for a public forum on President Obamas executive action on immigration.

Gutierrez, who launched his national Families United tour in Providence in 2004, will join U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline, Providence Mayor-elect Jorge O. Elorza and Central Falls Mayor James Diossa for the forum, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Providence Career and Technical Academy.

Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, is chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He last appeared in Rhode Island in January 2014 to join Cicilline at an immigration rally. He is appearing at the Jan. 14 event at Cicillines request, according to Cicillines office.

The forum will be the first stop on a nationwide education tour Gutierrez is planning to help educate immigrants applying for work permits and other opportunities under the presidents order.

The public forum will be co-hosted by the Diocese of Providence, Progreso Latino, and Dorcas International.

Mr. Obama announced in November that he is taking executive action on immigration, including extending protection from deportation to more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, a national leader on immigration reform, will return to Providence this month for a public forum on President Obamas executive action on immigration.

Gutierrez, who launched his national Families United tour in Providence in 2004, will join U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline, Providence Mayor-elect Jorge O. Elorza and Central Falls Mayor James Diossa for the forum, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Providence Career and Technical Academy.

Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, is chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He last appeared in Rhode Island in January 2014 to join Cicilline at an immigration rally. He is appearing at the Jan. 14 event at Cicillines request, according to Cicillines office.

The forum will be the first stop on a nationwide education tour Gutierrez is planning to help educate immigrants applying for work permits and other opportunities under the presidents order.

The public forum will be co-hosted by the Diocese of Providence, Progreso Latino, and Dorcas International.

Mr. Obama announced in November that he is taking executive action on immigration, including extending protection from deportation to more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

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Immigration forum in Providence on Jan. 14

Its no small task to pick out the biggest failure from this most recent session of Congress. It felt as though you couldnt go more than a few days without some legislative travesty or bungled negotiation or policy disaster. But when you step back and view the whole thing in its full, dysfunctional glory, one issue area stands out: immigration.

This was supposed to be the session in which immigration reform would finally finally get done. Wed been arguing over it since at least 2005, and Congress tried over and over to pass legislation only to see those bills expire before they could reach the presidents desk. Mitt Romneys Latino-powered thumping in 2012 was, we thought, the wake-up call Republicans needed. For a time it was, but then the old habits crept back in.

And now that Obamas taken unilateral executive action to curb deportations, all the anger and the dysfunction are going to carry over into 2015 and the new, Republican-dominated Congress. So what can we expect? Well, things dont look great.

Remember the Cromnibus? Sure you do. It was passed, like, two weeks ago. The Cromnibus was so named because it combined an omnibus spending package with a short-term continuing resolution (CR) for the Department of Homeland Security the agency that handles immigration issues that will run out in February. That short-term CR was the carrot GOP leaders dangled in front of angry conservatives to ensure they had enough votes to keep the government from shutting down. Vote for funding now, they said, and well have a fight over immigration funding in early 2015 when we have the numbers and control of both houses.

So, for the first couple of months of the year, theres going to be a lot of chest-thumping and more overheated nonsense about Obama the emperor declaring amnesty by fiat. While thats a certainty, whats not known is what, if anything, the GOP can do about it. Cutting off appropriations to DHS wont actually halt Obamas proposed program, and politically its a boneheaded play to mess with national security funding.

Heres how that argument goes:

GOP: End your program or DHS funding gets it!

OBAMA: Why are you withholding funds from the fight against terrorism?

GOP: were, uh, were serious!

OBAMA: The Secret Service, they need this money.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, a national leader on immigration reform, will return to Providence this month for a public forum on President Obamas executive action on immigration.

Gutierrez, who launched his national Families United tour in Providence in 2004, will join U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline, Providence Mayor-elect Jorge Elorza and Central Falls Mayor James Diossa for the forum, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Providence Career and Technical Academy.

Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, is chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He last appeared in Rhode Island in January 2014 to join Cicilline at an immigration rally. He is appearing at the Jan. 14 event at Cicillines request, according to Cicillines office.

The forum will be the first stop on a nationwide education tour Gutierrez is planning to help educate immigrants applying for work permits and other opportunities under the presidents order.

The public forum will be co-hosted by the Diocese of Providence, Progreso Latino, and Dorcas International.

Mr. Obama announced in November that he is taking executive action on immigration, including extending protection from deportation to more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

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