Sentences with phrase «face deportation»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo waded into the debate on immigration policy when he pardoned a Colombian undocumented immigrant facing deportation for a crime that was decades old.
Some of Tenney's opponents said they came away surprised at the color they sometimes flashed — particularly when she spoke in support of the so - called dreamers — young immigrants who face deportation if DACA is rolled back, as the president has proposed — and her work with refugees.
De Blasio said the city won't fund lawyers for immigrants facing deportation if they've been convicted of certain crimes — the same 170 on which the city cooperates with ICE detainers that start the process of deportation.
The public defender program is the first statewide universal representation program for immigrants facing deportation in the United States.
He just spent the last 2 years in jail his sentence will be up on the 28th of this month and he is now facing deportation of course.
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.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — About 20,000 people in Upstate New York face deportation from President Donald Trump's announcement Tuesday ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, according to an advocacy group.
The Interfaith Leadership Council, working hand - in - hand with the social justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a lawyer.
Two teenage girls participating in the press conference, who face deportation as illegal aliens even though their parents are in the United States legally, recounted being ordered by agents into an...
At a recent immigration rights forum, Angela Fernández warned people facing deportation not to sign any forms or waive their rights.
California «sanctuary state» Gov. Jerry Brown has empowered the lawyers for five convicts facing deportation with pardons for the crimes upon which their deportations are based.
The Vera Institute of Justice does the important job of providing those immigrants facing deportation with legal representation who may otherwise be left to fend for themselves.
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.
Nigerian asylum seeker Iza Muazu is suffering organ failure after a 90 - day hunger strike but still faces deportation by the Home Office.
The cat was only mentioned in the case because the foreign national facing deportation had cited the cat as evidence of the length and nature of their romantic relationship with a British national.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would set aside $ 16.4 million to provide free legal services to undocumented New Yorkers facing deportation — but told the Observer that those convicted of violent felonies, forcible touching, illicitly dealing in prescription drugs and possibly other crimes, will not benefit from the program.
The issue is a new $ 26 million city program to provide lawyers for New York residents facing deportation.
Where a run - in with police could mean jail time for legal U.S. residents, undocumented sex workers also face deportation,» Weill adds.
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.
Bailey & Galyen's immigration attorneys provide defense for clients facing deportation or removal.
Over the past year, multiple Christian leaders in Turkey faced deportation or were denied re-entry, including American street evangelist David Byle, as CT reported last year.
New York state is stepping in to help thousands of Salvadorans facing deportation following a decision by the Trump administration.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's protest was designed to draw attention to the plight of the young immigrants facing deportation known as Dreamers.
In an extraordinary move, Conservative members of the government were told to abstain on an amendment by Dominic Raab attempting to remove the right of foreign criminals facing deportation to make an appeal based on their right to a family life.
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday pardoned a former Ground Zero recovery worker facing deportation for an almost 30 - year - old criminal conviction.
The court's striking down the residual clause in the Immigration and Nationality Act will matter for many facing deportation.
Currently, the federal government primarily uses private prisons to house non-citizens convicted of crimes, and most face deportation upon release.
This week, the Evangelical Immigration Table launched a new prayer campaign for dreamers — young immigrants now facing deportation because the Trump administration has ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
In New Jersey, a pastor has drawn attention for harboring Indonesian refugees facing deportation in his church.
An American missionary facing deportation from Turkey for being a «danger to public order» has been released.
Foreign visitors who violate the law face deportation.
Now, the younger Yousef reportedly faces deportation to the Palestinian territory — something that his supporters say could result in his assassination.
Family no longer faces deportation, despite Supreme Court punting on whether home schooling is a religious freedom.
All the families facing deportation say they will pass their years in exile until their children turn 21.
The parliamentary researcher facing deportation for being a Russian spy says she will win her appeal «if there is justice».
Up to two thousand overseas students face deportation within 60 days after officials banned the London Metropolitan university from teaching them.
The NYC Council moved to force de Blasio to offer city - funded lawyers to immigrants facing deportation even if they're convicted of serious crimes, as it voted to pass a new $ 85.2 billion budget yesterday.
For Eritrean and Sudanese asylum - seekers facing deportation from Israel's Holot detention centre, the future is bleak.
Nokes last week told Yvette Cooper, the chair of the home affairs select committee, that she hadn't had time to investigate revelations in the Guardian that at least 1,000 highly skilled migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain in the UK were wrongly facing deportation.
Our investigative report into the tens of thousands of students in Britain facing deportation came in second place this week.
There are 20,000 people in upstate alone who are facing deportation due to Trump's DACA announcement, according to the New York Immigration Coalition.
By Sian Norris On Wednesday, SNP MP Hannah Bardell asked the prime minister to intervene on behalf of her constituent Lola Ilesanmi, who currently faces deportation to Nigeria where her three - year - old daughter is at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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.
In federal court on Thursday, New Jersey's attorney general filed a brief to back Dreamers facing deportation.
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.
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Jerry Brown has pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two who fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia four decades ago.
An Iranian teenager facing deportation and possible death in Iran has been granted a reprieve by the home secretary.
The Justice Department says it won't give cities some law enforcement grant money unless they give federal immigration authorities access to jails and alert them when someone facing deportation will be released from local custody.
A political row erupted after it emerged many of those who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean decades ago were facing deportation under new immigration rules.
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