Sentences with phrase «for young undocumented immigrants»

As future protections for young undocumented immigrants are in question after President Donald Trump called on Congress to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Albany County officials are pledging to protect local DACA kids.

Following up on a vow he made last September to push a bill that would provide a solution for those young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, Collins this month became one of 20 House Republican...

ALBANY, N.Y. — As future protections for young undocumented immigrants are in question after President Donald Trump called on Congress to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Albany County officials are pledging to protect local DACA kids.

The second bill is likely to be much more narrow that the Goodlatte bill, which addresses a several legal immigration policies in addition to providing for a renewal process for young undocumented immigrants who have temporary relief from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Ousted White House strategist Stephen Bannon said he would have advised President Trump to abolish all protections for young undocumented immigrants to avoid the «civil war» — and potential loss of the House next year — he predicts will follow in the GOP.

Trump will extend a March 5 deadline to end protections for young undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to act by then, according to a Republican senator who spoke directly with the president about the issue.

A District of Columbia federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama - era program and - for the first time...

Washington (CNN)-- Supporters of the Senate immigration bill's path to citizenship are blasting comments Iowa Rep. Steve King made last week where he said that for every young undocumented immigrant who is a school valedictorian, 100 more are «hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.»

Not exact matches

On Jan. 10, he offered to support a Democratic goal — providing legal status to some 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — in exchange for money for the wall as part of down - to - the - wire negotiations for a short - term budget.

In a tweet Friday morning, Trump said he was «considering a VETO» because the proposal did not extend protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants or fully fund his proposed border wall.

Pressing the issue further, Ms. Pelosi and the next two highest - ranking House Democrats sent a letter to Mr. Ryan noting their desire for the government to remain open and imploring him to make a public statement about the scheduling of a vote on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants who are now shielded from deportation by the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

President Trump is strongly considering a plan that would end the Obama - era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, but only after giving Congress six months to come up with a potential replacement for the popular initiative, according to three administration officials briefed on the discussions.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi commandeered the House floor Wednesday for a day - into - night marathon plea to Republicans for action on immigration, casting the fate of young undocumented immigrants in moral terms.

The threat of a lawsuit from 10 conservative state attorneys general has led to reports that President Donald Trump plans on ending or at least modifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that protects children of undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country when they were too young to have a say.

The White House presented Congress with an expansive list of hard - line immigration measures, including an $ 18 billion request to build a wall at the Mexican border, that President Trump is demanding in exchange for protecting young undocumented immigrants.

But the Trump administration has been committed to reining in both legal and illegal immigration, most notably by ending protections for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, beginning in March unless Congress grants them legal status before then.

De Blasio and Cuomo separately promised to take the Trump Administration to court should the president end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation and allows them to work legally in the United States.

Spending five figures on the ad buy, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting nine members who voted for an amendment that would defund a program that allows some young undocumented immigrants to defer deportation.

In a speech to Republican lawmakers, Trump turned up the pressure on Democrats to come to an agreement with Republicans on protections for young, undocumented immigrants, asserting that opposition leaders «talk a good game» but care more about politics than actually resolving the matter.

Republicans resolved not to submit to the minority party's demands to negotiate, while Democrats largely unified to use the shutdown deadline to force concessions on numerous issues — including protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.

The authors suggest that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an initiative signed by the Obama administration in 2012 that allows certain young undocumented immigrants to work legally in the U.S. without fear of deportation, could help shore up the numbers.

In the four years since the Obama Administration launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, young, undocumented immigrants have gained visibility, opportunity, and some measure of stability.

US Born, Living in Mexico and Ineligible for Basic Services The Associated Press, July 18, 2012» «These are children who are kind of stateless in both countries,» said Hirokazu Yoshikawa, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children.»

Following President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama - era program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, some of America's 800,000 young adults brought to the United States illegally as children may be deported beginning in March 2018.