Sentences with phrase «arrests of undocumented immigrants»

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A jury handed a stunning acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges to a homeless undocumented immigrant whose arrest in the killing of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco Bay pier intensified a national debate over sanctuary laws.

Originally published March 30, 2018; updated May 1, 2018 Thomas Homan is the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal immigration agency responsible for arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, who is reportedly retiring next month.

In the 1980s, Pastor John Fife of Arizona and a collective of other ministers were arrested on suspicion of harboring undocumented immigrants.

This includes 100 arrests a day of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record.

Also in his January executive order, President Trump called for the expansion of a program that authorizes local authorities to serve as immigration enforcement officers to arrest undocumented immigrants who threaten the community.

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.

U.S. federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least four states this week in what officials on Friday called routine enforcement actions.

The Trump administration's far - reaching plan to arrest and deport vast numbers of undocumented immigrants has been introduced in dramatic fashion over the past month.

At the end of March, Police Commissioner James O'Neill admitted that undocumented immigrants who get arrested for turnstile jumping can be deported, according to Politico New York.

Kamla Millwood, director of communications for Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, blasted broken windows and noted that undocumented immigrants can be deported when arrested for low - level offenses.

The term - limited Council speaker will propose several defiant steps to further shield undocumented immigrants from arrest and deportation, according to notes her office released to the media in advance of the address at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn.

The Trump administration is planning an increase in federal immigration jails across the country for the thousands of additional undocumented immigrants its agents are arresting.

New York is one of the cities targeted in the order for policies like its refusal to turn over to the feds undocumented immigrants who are arrested for minor offenses, and for cops and other city employees not to ask about residents» immigration status.

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.

In February, ICE sweeps on Staten Island netted five Mexican nationals, coinciding with immigration authorities arresting hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least six states following an executive order Trump signed the previous month.

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.