Sentences with phrase «federal immigration policy»

The matter eventually made its way to the Supreme Court where Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court stating that Federal immigration policy, as expressed by Congress, foreclosed the NLRB from awarding back pay to an undocumented alien who has never been legally authorized to work in the United States.
State schools chief seeks clarity on federal immigration policy after L.A. incident latimes.com/local/californ...
Federal immigration policy causes children and families in our district to live in fear.
Federal immigration policy creates challenges for districts.
She remains positive about the new mayor's outlook on federal immigration policy, Fuentes said.
o The departure of the old Queens Field Office means Queens Residents must either travel to Lower Manhattan or to Holtsville, Long Island, to reach the nearest USCIS Field Office to address their citizenship and green card applications and obtain other important services that have become even more vital during this time of uncertainty in Federal immigration policy.
At the same time, Cuomo said he was worried federal lawmakers and the Trump administration would seek other ways of running roughshod over states» rights beyond the tax law approved last month as well as federal immigration policy.
Governors in more than a dozen states, too, have said they oppose having refugees settle in their states, though their power is limited when it comes to federal immigration policy.
Worried about federal immigration policies, a New York labor organization is taking steps to protect its own.
It worked out beautifully: the Mayor won and Mr. Linares, who was term - limited out of his Council seat in 2001, got a plum sinecure that enabled him to make fact - finding trips to the Caribbean as often as he liked, to walk in parades, and to speak sonorously about Federal immigration policies that he had no power over.
In her final State of the City address, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito decried Trump's policies and promised that city lawmakers would strike back against federal immigration policies and guarantee women free birth control that the GOP has promised to restrict.
Democratic lawmakers are backing bills that would block the use of state and local facilities for enforcing federal immigration policies and limit the detention of individuals based on immigration - related issues.
Federal immigration policies could have a negative effect on the Southern Tier wine - making industry, some constituents are telling Republican Rep. Tom Reed.
Cuomo created the Liberty Defense Project last year in response to hostile federal immigration policies.
«Carecen seeks an ironclad assurance that Nassau County will act in accordance with New York State law, and not just with federal immigration policies,» she said.

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Among other unfriendly business policies, he's known to favor eliminating federal financing support for exporters, and he opposes comprehensive immigration reform.
After assessing her policies on taxes and government spending, foreign immigration, and the federal minimum wage, Moody's concluded that a President Hillary Clinton would oversee a «somewhat stronger U.S. economy.»
While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.
The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.
Specific policies include opting out of the Canada Employment Insurance Program and replacing it with an Alberta Employment Insurance Program; withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan and creating an Alberta Pension Plan; assuming provincial control over national parks in Alberta; and asserting provincial (as opposed to federal) control over immigration.
Graf warned that if Cuomo rebukes the president on immigration and other policies, there could be consequences since a third of the state's budget comes from the federal government.
In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.
«The federal authorities claim they are making America safe again, but the truth is that their immigration enforcement policies are making all of us less safe,» Gonzalez said in a statement.
The situation in Albany would be weird in any political environment, but it's highly problematic in the Trump era, when proposed federal immigration and health care policies have made millions of New York's residents vulnerable.
To make it quite clear whose policies they were rebuffing, they also forced the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to pack up and leave Rikers Island.
On this edition of Need to Know, A new supreme court nominee, changes in immigration policy, and a hiring freeze in the federal government.
O'Neill has defied the President in the past, saying in February that his officers will not enforce administrative warrants issued by federal immigration officials as a result of the expansive deportation policies.
He has drawn attention in the past for his tough immigration policy after he asked for the federal government's help in a launching citywide campaign to crack down on undocumented residents, whom he said put a strain on local schools and hospitals.
Up until around the Civil War the states largely carried out their own immigration policy, because of a lack of any federal guidance on the issue.
Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis — the former New York chair of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign — today urged the Department of Justice to follow through on its threat to deny New York City federal dollars unless it ends its policy of noncompliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The concern is that people in immigrant communities will be under counted in part due to a fear of federal officials and hardline immigration policies from President Donald Trump's administration.
Today, federal policies passed by Congress have regulated immigration so much that there is no wiggle room for states to carry out their own immigration policies anymore.
Eventually they ended on a compromise: states could handle their own immigration and slavery policies, but the federal Congress could regulate naval trade and laws could be passed with a simple majority - not 2/3.
Cuomo once again from criticizing President Donald Trump directly, whose immigration policies such as banning travel from Muslim - majority countries has been challenged in federal government.
As released by the attorney general's civil rights bureau, the policies outline the limits local law enforcement can participate in federal immigrant enforcement efforts, including refusing to enact non-judicial warrants in civil cases, denying requests by federal officials in holding people longer than 48 hours and limits on the access Immigration and Customs Enforcement or border protection officers can have with those currently in custoy.
And the policy provides guidance for limits on sharing and gathering information that would be used by federal immigration enforcement.
Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis urged the Department of Justice to follow through on its threat to deny New York City federal dollars unless it ends its policy of noncompliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But, he supports cooperation with federal immigration officials and has repeatedly said in the past that immigration policies need to be defined at the national level.
Immigration experts, however, say that governors have little influence over federal resettlement policy, though they can make conditions less welcoming for refugees in their states.
Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico, has called on the state to adopt legislation similar to a bill recently introduced in California known as the California Values Act — which has bipartisan support — would establish a statewide policy that recognizes immigrants as «valuable and essential members of the California community» and would limit the state's participation in federal immigration law enforcement.
The new policy will prevent Westchester law enforcement officials from cooperating with federal agencies such as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, and Customs and Border Patrol, as well as prevent county authorities from questioning individuals about their immigratImmigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, and Customs and Border Patrol, as well as prevent county authorities from questioning individuals about their immigrationimmigration status.
The eight - page county resolution — sponsored by Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, a New Paltz Democrat, and officially called «A Policy to Maintain a Safe, Inclusive Government and Ensure the Protection, Order, Conduct, Safety, Health and Well - Being of All Persons in Ulster County» — spells out how county government officials can and can not interact with immigrants and federal immigration officials.
The Assembly bill, which stands little chance of being approved in the Republican - led Senate, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement — part of a raft of measures approved on Monday in the chamber seeking to counter President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Officially called «A Policy to Maintain a Safe, Inclusive Government and Ensure the Protection, Order, Conduct, Safety, Health and Well - Being of All Persons in Ulster County,» the eight - page resolution spells out how government officials can interact with immigrants and federal immigration officials.
A United States federal judge in San Francisco revoked Trump's executive order signed in January to withhold federal funds from cities that disobey Trump's immigration policies.
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 times have changed, the state could face devastating cuts under Trump, it could face drastic shifts in immigration policy and federal positions on environmental protection and business regulations.
For now, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs has maintained its position, saying the increasing need for lawyers in light of recent federal government actions pertaining to immigration policy have forced the city to reevaluate and prioritize how the allocations are funded.
Upping the immigration deportation ante, a San Francisco federal judge found «irreparable harm» and ordered a national preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's threat of cutting off law enforcement funds to «sanctuary cities» that defiantly refused to comply with his deportation policy.
«I will fight to strengthen our immigration policy — I will ensure that our commonwealth will enforce the state law if the federal government will not.»
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