Sentences with phrase «children facing deportation»

Last month, we announced some very exciting news about a new justice AmeriCorps program that will fund legal assistance to unaccompanied immigrant children facing deportation.

We represent tenants who are wrongly evicted, victims of domestic violence and child abuse and immigrant children facing deportation.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House, 91 percent of children facing deportation proceedings without a lawyer are deported, compared to only 22 percent of children who have representation.

The turn in court comes after Ms. James had previously called on the city's lawyers represent, pro bono, children facing deportation cases in the federal government's surge docket, and had promised to do so herself after a refresher on family and immigration law.

At present, the initiative has 5,000 attorneys, as well as several dozen student volunteers, on hand ready to take on the cases of children facing deportation.

And Ms. Mark - Viverito also led the way on the creation of a new public - private partnership to fund lawyers for unaccompanied minor children facing deportation as part of the «surge docket» in federal court.

Ms. Mark - Viverito proudly announced that the multi-million-dollar New York City Unaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facing deportation.

Not exact matches

All the families facing deportation say they will pass their years in exile until their children turn 21.

The Academy was an anchor organization on an amicus brief for the case signed by child health and education organizations, outlining harms to children whose parents face deportation and arguing that lifting the circuit's injunction would provide millions of children with the family stability and security essential to their psychological, physical and emotional well - being.

A Guatemalan immigrant facing deportation has taken her three children and sought refuge inside a Manhattan church.

Mr Lammy said it was a «day of national shame» and called on Home Secretary Amber Rudd to apologise for the threat of deportation facing some people who arrived from the Commonwealth as children.

But it represented a bitter defeat for many liberal Democrats who sought to use the party's leverage on the budget to resolve the plight of immigrant «Dreamers» who face deportation after being brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Immigrants expressed fear that more than 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children would face deportation if DACA is cancelled.

«I think anyone facing a life - altering judgment — whether it's incarceration, eviction, deportation, loss of custody of your children, foreclosure on a mortgage you have — anyone facing those kinds of judgements should have representation, in my opinion,» City Councilman Mark Levine told the Observer.

Children face barriers because of their parents» undocumented status, often related to poverty, fears of deportation, and more, while undocumented youth themselves face increasing barriers to social mobility as they enter adolescence and hope to obtain driver's licenses, afterschool work, and financial aid for college.

Across the country and here in Central Texas, undocumented parents of American citizen children are asking this very question as they face the prospect of deportation.

Helen's work focuses on providing legal services to children and youth facing deportation.

Under the changes, certificates will be available to those meeting the income eligibility criteria who are facing secondary consequences of a criminal conviction such as a risk of deportation; immediate loss of public housing; or a significant impact on access to family and child custody.

The Academy was an anchor organization on an amicus brief for the case signed by child health and education organizations, outlining harms to children whose parents face deportation and arguing that lifting the circuit's injunction would provide millions of children with the family stability and security essential to their psychological, physical and emotional well - being.