Sentences with phrase «already legal immigrants»
This question is not about already legal immigrants in the US, but about people in a Latin American country attempting to become a legal resident (without any prior illegal status in US).
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Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito declared today that an initiative launched last year to guarantee legal representation to all of the undocumented immigrant children inundating the city has been a success — and has already obtained asylum for more than a dozen youth lacking proper paperwork.
Bridget Ball Shaw, a board member of the Capital District Women's Bar Association Legal Project, which offers pro bono representation to immigrants, said at the public forum that news of the 287 (g) program had already frightened immigrant families.
As the Trump administration announced Tuesday the rescinding of DACA, the Obama - era program that protected children of undocumented immigrants from being deported, thousands of recipients have been left unsure of their futures and legal teams have already began questioning the president's action.
* The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act allowed illegal immigrants already living in the United States to apply for legal status if they met certain requirements, which resulted in a dramatic upswing in immigration figures in the late 1980s and 1990s, totaling about 2.7 million people over that period.
It really came together to figure out how to support efforts that are already ongoing, including legal aid organizations who are helping immigrants, and also how to sort of push back in a constructive way against policies that we think are bad.