Sentences with phrase «federal immigration authorities say»

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Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said she's not worried, despite the fact U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned cities earlier this week they could lose federal grant money for failing to cooperate with immigration authorities.

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold funding from «sanctuary cities» that do not cooperate with U.S. immigration officials, saying the president has no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending.

«The federal authorities claim they are making America safe again, but the truth is that their immigration enforcement policies are making all of us less safe,» Gonzalez said in a statement.

Mayor Steve Noble, who backed the law, said that city would also rely on guidance from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who issued a legal opinion last year illustrating how municipalities could lawfully limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

The Justice Department says it won't give cities some law enforcement grant money unless they give federal immigration authorities access to jails and alert them when someone facing deportation will be released from local custody.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer: «If the federal government wants to wield its full authority on immigration, for example, it will be hard for states to object, because that's an area where the courts have said the government has a clear capacity under the Constitution to do what it wants.»

Members of the JFREJ say they there should be greater limits to the NYPD's power to conduct random stops and searches, and they called on de Blasio to further limit the city's interaction with federal immigration authorities.

A Salvadoran immigrant from Brentwood and her lawyer said she was detained by immigration authorities for more than a month in New Jersey as she was falsely accused of being an associate of the violent MS - 13 gang that local and federal law enforcement authorities are working to dismantle.

«The Trump administration does not have the authority to unilaterally transform state and local police into federal immigration agents — and they can not punish a locality simply because it won't comply,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito recently said the city would reduce its cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

«We recommend that these bills remain consistent with recent approaches taken by the City Council and this administration, which has been to work with federal immigration authorities in limited circumstances where there are risks to public safety, while otherwise prioritizing remaining an accessible city,» she said.

He says Quebec has negotiated an immigration agreement with the federal government that provides «surprisingly significant control and authority over what is ostensibly a federal power.»