Sentences with phrase «arrests by immigration»

Public defenders oppose courthouse arrests by immigration authorities, but administrators said lawyers» protests against the practice were disruptive.

Public defenders and advocates for immigrant rights rallied on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall on December 7 to condemn arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at New York courthouses.

She was however arrested by the Immigration Service and hauled before court together with the other suspects.

Thirty - nine members of MS - 13, a brutal gang with roots in Central America, were arrested by the immigration authorities in New York in the past month, officials said.

Jose Antonio Ramos, one of the «Buffalo 25» arrested by immigration officials last October at several Buffalo area Mexican restaurants, said he does not «understand this new president» and his executive order that instills «fear walking the streets.»

Not exact matches

Immigration advocates are accusing the San Diego - area Border Patrol of politicizing two human - smuggling arrests by publicizing the suspects» participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — even though one of the arrestees was not actively enrolled in DACA.

But when the men returned last week, this time joined by a lawyer, they were arrested and sent to an immigration detention center.

Asia Huang, together with the four others were arrested in Kumasi by the Ghana Immigration Service for allegedly engaging in galamsey.

Following the recent arrest of 225 people across New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is warning that the state will take legal action to stop the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This summer, some workers stayed away from Saratoga and the racetrack, fearful that there would be more immigration arrests by ICE.

With a growing fear of many more immigration raids to come, on Feb. 24, county Democrats added four new conditions to the proposal, including language that prohibits county officers and officials from honoring requests made by ICE and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, that do not give rise to probable cause, and protects Westchester from liability due to false arrests and imprisonments.

Isabella Acevedo was arrested and detained at her daughter's wedding by 15 immigration officers.

Just a month after Theresa May told the Commons that the ratio of police Stop and Searches compared to arrests was far too high, the Home Office refused to state how many hundreds of people had been stopped by immigration officers compared to arrests in what looked to many like a racial profiling exercise.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

Walsh has said, though, that he plans to keep in place policies enacted by former Mayor Stephanie Miner, though, that do not require police to arrest people based on immigration status — a policy frequently implemented by sanctuary cities.

BTW - I don't have any proof of # 2, so I will accept an answer that - with specific numbers - disproves # 1 - 3 by showing that the arrest and prosecution rates for non-immigration felonies / misdemeanors are as low as those for illegal immigration.

Meghan Maloney, a senior outreach official with the New York Immigration Project, said Thursday that the arrest of construction workers this week by the U.S. Border Patrol indicates a stepped - up enforcement effort.

The president has also threatened to strip sanctuary jurisdictions of federal funding if they do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities in detaining undocumented immigrants arrested by police.

Walsh, an independent who swept into office this past year by promising a nonpartisan approach to politics, has said he plans to keep in place policies enacted by former Mayor Stephanie Miner, though, that do not require police to arrest people based on immigration status — a policy frequently implemented by sanctuary cities.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Ofer Biton, who helped Rep. Michael Grimm raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his maiden 2010 campaign, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with lying on immigration documents, according to published reports.

New York set aside $ 10 million for the legal defense of immigrants targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement just days after ICE announced the arrest of hundreds of people in the state.

A 40 year old Pastor, Victor Udom, has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, for defrauding one Mr...

Congress should enact legislation giving more teeth to existing federal guidelines aimed at ensuring that children's needs are considered when their parents are arrested in raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, a California congresswoman said today.

With DeVos proposing to eliminate another 34 positions in 2018 - 2019, the education secretary is ensuring fewer investigations into violations of civil rights — including alleged efforts by districts to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and local police wrongly identify, suspend, arrest, and deport undocumented immigrant children under the guise of being gang members.

«The arrest and detention of Romulo Avelica - Gonzalez by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as he was dropping off his 13 - year - old daughter at Academia Avance charter school, provoked fear and turmoil that plagued California's communities and distracted students from what matters most: their learning.

In or around early 1995, the plaintiff was arrested and detained by Immigration Canada.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.