MIDDLETOWN – The Newport County Chamber of Commerce, responding to the immigration arrests this week on Aquidneck Island, today made available a variety of resources on immigration law, employer compliance and business visa regulations.

The creation of the immigration page at www.NewportChamber.com follows an operation by U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – focusing on suspected immigration violations in Newport and Middletown – that resulted in 42 arrests. (The suspects came from Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico, federal officials said in announcing the operation. Thirty-three are subject to immediate deportation.)

Featured on the new page are:

• PowerPoint presentations from the Chamber’s 2008 Business & Immigration Law Conference, held March 13 at Hotel Viking in Newport.

• Links to three local law firms whose practices include U.S. immigration law.

• A link to the International Institute of Rhode Island, a nonprofit organization based in Providence that provides educational, legal, and social services to immigrants and refugees across southeastern New England.

• Links to ICE, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, as well as the E-Verify employment-verification system operated by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.

The Newport County Chamber is a business advocacy organization with more than 1,200 members. Its compilation of immigration resources can be found at www.newportchamber.com/immigration.