Sentences with phrase «allowing undocumented immigrants»

Recently she helped win a state Supreme Court case allowing undocumented immigrants to be licensed as attorneys.

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As Chair of the Senate Latino Conference, Espaillat has championed state - based reform solutions, including legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, the DREAM Act and the Farmworkers Bill of Rights.

A Board of Regents rule change allowing undocumented immigrants to receive a number of professional certifications, including teaching, goes into effect today.

Your opposition to allowing undocumented immigrants to have driver's licenses; 5.

Johnson, the former governor of a state that bordered Mexico, a U.S. trading partner that Trump regularly maligns, favors a more open immigration policy that would allow undocumented immigrants to get work visas to fill jobs that U.S. workers don't want.

Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor takes on a recent measure by the New York State Education Department's Board of Regents that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses, including certification to teach in public schools.

Meghan Maloney de Zaldivar of the New York Immigration Coalition discusses proposed state legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to receive driver's licenses with WBFO.

Republicans also do not agree with the recent decision from the Board of Regents to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for teacher certifications.

ALBANY — Proposed legislation would allow undocumented immigrants protected under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to keep their driver's licenses after the program ends in March.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is supporting a campaign to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a New York State driver's license.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his renewed advocacy for a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to tap into financial assistance for college despite obdurate opposition from state Senate Republicans.

The mailer claims Tkaczyk is «rolling out the red carpet to illegal immigrants» through backing the Dream Act as well as a measure that would allow undocumented immigrants voting rights and the ability to collect welfare.

The Board of Regents will allow undocumented immigrants receive teacher certifications, setting off concerns from some state lawmakers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his renewed advocacy for the DREAM Act, a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to tap into financial assistance for college, despite obdurate opposition from state Senate Republicans.

Bronx Democratic Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda wants to allow undocumented immigrants protected under the federal DACA program to keep their driver's licenses after it ends in March, and also to be eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship program.

Hochul's faced questions about her commitment to immigration reform, after she rose to prominence for opposing then Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to allow undocumented immigrant access to drivers licenses.

The «Driver License Access and Privacy Act» would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license using their passport and signing an affidavit stating they have not received a social security number.

For over a decade, advocacy groups and supporters of a bill to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in New York have persistently been showing their support.

On April 18, 2018, advocacy groups protested for the Driver License Access and Privacy Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in New York and would also protect their information to prevent putting them at risk for deportation.

This article discusses Erie County's Clerk Mickey Kearns» statement that he is in opposition to the Driver License Access and Privacy Act which would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

For example, he created a visa program that allowed undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States.

The talking points attack the Democratic platform of public financing for elections, changes to state abortion law that opponents say would open the door to regulations that could greatly expand the practice's surgical parameters, as well as the Dream Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to utilize state tuition assistance programs.

Trump vowed last month to cut off federal funding to «sanctuary» cities like New York if local enforcement allow undocumented immigrants access to social services without having to reveal their status, or otherwise refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed that New York City will remain a sanctuary city — so called because NYC allows undocumented immigrants access to social services without having to reveal their status and refuses to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in deportation efforts.

The Act would allow undocumented immigrant students to apply for state tuition assistance, expand access to the State's 529 College Savings Program, and create a private scholarship fund available to undocumented students.

The Trump Administration announced that it would not embark on any deportation proceedings those previously covered under DACA for six months, declaring that it wait on Congress to pass legislation that would eventually allow those undocumented immigrant youth to stay.

More than 18 states have passed their own Dream Act legislation that allows undocumented immigrants to access in - state tuition at state universities; some also allow undocumented students to apply for financial aid.

Rhode Island's higher education approved a new policy that allows undocumented immigrants to pay in - state tuition at the state's universities and colleges.

Allow undocumented immigrants to purchase coverage through the state's marketplace, Covered California, without premium subsidies.

May 03, 2013 - A signature from Oregon's governor this week finalized a law there that will allow undocumented immigrants to be issued a four - year «driver card» that grants them driving privileges and requires them to purchase insurance.

One of the reasons for this is because there are many reports in states that do not allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a license being sold insurance policies that are simply not valid.

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Republicans intend to deny funding to the agency to carry out Obama's order allowing millions of undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States.

But under a compromise negotiated with Governor Jerry Brown, the bill allows local police to notify the federal government if they have arrested an undocumented immigrant with a felony record.

As Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang note in their book, Welcoming the Stranger, a large number of undocumented immigrants are Asian students who've allowed their student visas to expire.

In a series of tweets, President Trump blamed Democrats and the Mexican government for allowing undocumented Mexican immigrants into the country, exclaiming «NO MORE DACA DEAL» in one of the tweets.

Since then, Clinton has changed her views on whether undocumented immigrants should be allowed to get licenses, and firmly supports the idea.

Other findings from the Siena poll: 56 percent are in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana, and 61 percent of New Yorkers are in favor of the Dream Act, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to receive college financial aid.

If Trump considers himself «pro-life,» he should reconsider his decision to end a program that allows the children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, Pope Francis said.

In hopes of breaking the logjam, Cuomo tied the tax credit to passage of a state DREAM Act that would allow for state tuition assistance money to go to the college kids of undocumented immigrants.

Katko also emphasized that he remains committed to finding a path to citizenship for about 11 million undocumented immigrants, but he said those who have committed felonies or led unproductive lives should not be allowed to stay in the United States.

Senators Diane Savino, Jose Peralta, Tony Avella, Jessie Hamilton, David Carlucci, Marisol Alcantara and David Valesky discuss adding the protections for a woman's right to choose abortion in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision into state law, enacting the Dream Act, which would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to receive college aid, a law to protect the rights of transgender New Yorkers, and putting limits on the amount of money donors can give to campaigns, among other items.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today said the tentative state budget deal will bring additional millions in school aid to New York City and allow him first crack at fixing failing schools — but lamented the absence of an extension of mayoral control and legislation to fund tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

It would allow children of undocumented immigrants to go to college.

De Blasio and Cuomo separately promised to take the Trump Administration to court should the president end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation and allows them to work legally in the United States.

Its members assert that the arrangement has allowed them to advance liberal measures — like a legal fund for undocumented immigrants, a minimum wage hike and paid family leave — that would otherwise have no chance in a Republican - controlled body.

On Monday, the state Senate voted down the measure, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to be eligible for college financial aid.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

Those actions followed executive orders Trump signed that expanded the number of undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation, allowing ICE to arrest any person without paperwork accused of any crime, even if not convicted or charged with a minor or nonviolent offense.

Spending five figures on the ad buy, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting nine members who voted for an amendment that would defund a program that allows some young undocumented immigrants to defer deportation.