Sentences with phrase «federal immigration authorities over»

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City Hall has clashed repeatedly with the new administration over New York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from detaining and turning over people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offenses.

That seemed to constitute Mr. de Blasio's only certainty about how the Trump administration would affect the city's finances, although he also predicted tumult in health care funding and expressed confidence that the city would withstand Mr. Trump's threat to strip billions in federal funding from the city over its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Mark - Viverito has made immigration and sanctuary city policy a focus of her time in office, proposing and helping to pass several bills aimed at limiting the city's cooperation with federal authorities over immigration issues.

But things quickly soured after de Blasio clarified that the money in his proposal could only be used for people who were not accused of committing certain crimes, specifically any offense listed among the 170 crimes which the city has deemed «deportable offenses» that would require law enforcement to turn over offenders to federal immigration authorities.

The federal government's authority over immigration is further solidified by the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Const.

He says Quebec has negotiated an immigration agreement with the federal government that provides «surprisingly significant control and authority over what is ostensibly a federal power.»

I agree with the argument that the federal government's authority under the preemption clause will prevail over the Arizona state law... Otherwise we could have 50 states writing immigration laws and it would result in the chaos that the preemption clause was specifically created to prevent.»