Sentences with phrase «before immigration authorities»

Especially with the visas we need for our resources crossing the border, we tend to have the same kind of applications going before the immigration authorities.

Long Island immigrants facing the threat of deportation soon will have a new resource to aid their defense, as Hofstra University's law school is opening a clinic to help some make their cases before immigration authorities and to craft proposals that could influence the policy debate.

Not exact matches

The judge in Chicago on Friday barred the Justice Department from withholding public safety grants to cities unless they allowed U.S. immigration authorities unlimited access to local jails and provided 48 hours» notice before releasing individuals sought for deportation.

Furthermore, states can't give their police the authority to arrest immigrants without warrant for being removable, because that's giving them more power than federal immigration officers (who normally need a warrant), and undermines the fact that Congress normally requires a warrant before making those arrests (increasing federal discretion).

She recounted that a fellow JFREJ member's house had been raided by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities the day before the protest.

From Nowhere (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama, set in the Bronx, highlighting the ordeals of three, undocumented high school seniors — a Muslim Guinean (J. Mallory McCree), a depressed Dominican (Octavia Chavez - Richmond) and a Peruvian class valedictorian (Raquel Castro)-- living in fear of being apprehended by the authorities before being granted legal immigration status.

Where the issues before the court are between citizens this may not matter; but where the issues are between the citizen and departments of state or citizens and local authorities — immigration, social security, planning permission — there must surely be some concern that the judge will not want to let down the political party which got him, or her, elected and whose support may be needed for re-election and promotion.

Although it is not a legal requirement in Canada, it can make travel much easier because some foreign immigration authorities may ask to see it before allowing you to enter or leave.