Sentences with phrase «government about immigrants»

For example, legislators have proposed legislation that would limit information sharing with the federal government about immigrants.

Not exact matches

The plan, reported by BuzzFeed, is notable partly because it permits the government to amass information not only about recent immigrants, but also on green card holders and naturalized Americans as well.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

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.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

Look closely, and this scene tells you a lot about what Italy is today: an MC Escher - like tangle of governmental bureaucracy; social tension exacerbated by a relatively recent influx of immigrants; passive resignation to years of high unemployment, virtually no economic growth, and government debt that is now nearly 140 percent of the gross domestic product.

I seem to recall Labour ministers (especially John Reid and Hazel Blears) spent large amounts of time in the last government desperately trying to look tough on immigrants, shaking up border control repeatedly, and posturing about how those naughty immigrants must be made to integrate.

Speaking to the Guardian, Miliband admitted the Labour government allowed too many immigrants from eastern Europe into the country by lifting controls on EU accession countries such as Poland too quickly, but denied his party lied about immigration, as claimed by his former adviser Lord Glasman.

He also spoke about the controversial Arizona immigration law that requires police to check the papers of people they suspect of being illegal immigrants, saying it underscores «a complete failure» by the federal government to secure the border.

For every government announcement designed to stoke fears about immigration, there are many more immigrants and asylum seekers suffering abuse and ill - treatment in the UK.

He said Conservative austerity had brought about a «nasty, divisive politics» in some parts of the country that blamed problems on immigrants rather than the Government's policies.

The Trump administration has freed about 100,000 immigrants caught at the U.S. - Mexico border in the 15 months since the president took office, newly released government figures show, despite repeated promises to end President Barack Obama's «catch and release» policies.

The short video echoed themes from a speech Bharara gave Thursday night at Cooper Union, which he talked about his immigrant background and his love for America — and implored regular citizens to take action to change problems they see in government.

The study shows that over a recent period of more than three years, the U.S. federal government approved about 91 percent of labor certification applications from Asian immigrants and 90 percent from Canadian immigrants, but just 67 percent of applications from Latin American immigrants.

And then go ask some politician who doesn't know or care anything about environment to name the modern world's worst political trouble spots, where state government has already collapsed or is at risk of collapsing or where there have been civil wars or dispatches of American troops or exoduses of millions of desperate illegal immigrants or terrorists.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

POGG symbolizes Canada and without knowing a single thing about the Canadian Constitution, millions of immigrants have been drawn to Canada since 1867 because of their belief that Canada would offer them a place of peace, order and good government.

Some Vancouver realtors were concerned about the recent cancellation of the immigrant investor programs by the federal government, where rich people from other parts of the world (i.e. China) could effectively get permanent residency status in Canada if they invested a huge swak of money in eligible investments.

But it speaks volumes that a government employee at CRA has never even heard of the real estate council and knows nothing about the real estate world so to him it doesn't matter that these immigrants allegedly have no SIN number but are dealing with mega millions of public dollars?