Sentences with phrase «immigration asylum»

Similarly, in immigration asylum proceedings, the judge you get assigned to is one of the two biggest factors in determining whether you will get asylum.

He has an active pro-bono practice litigating immigration asylum claims, civil rights and Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, and has volunteered with the ACLU of Southern California, Bet Tzedek, and Public Counsel.

Under the Immigration Asylum Act 2006, firms can be fined for taking on illegal workers, individual officers can be disbarred and persistent offenders can have their assets seized.

Not exact matches

The rumours circulated after Belgian Immigration Minister Theo Francken said over the weekend said it would be «not unrealistic» to grant Puigdemont asylum if he asked for it.

Children from Mexico and Canada, on the other hand, can be subject to «voluntary repatriation» within 72 hours of their capture, so long as an immigration officer finds that they were not the subject of a «severe form of trafficking in persons» and do not have a basis to claim asylum.

A spokesman for Hussen, the immigration minister, said asylum seekers can access provincial programs.

Asylum - seekers are typically held up to three days at the border and then turned over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The government's slow pace in filling vacancies on the Immigration and Refugee Board has led it to declare that it will no longer be meeting legislated timelines in the face of a wave of irregular asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

Greg Chen of the American Immigration Lawyers Association provided context for the action and discussed the legality of prosecuting asylum seekers.

In 2003, Sadr, who was studying at Cornell University, won asylum in the US based on claims he'd been tortured in Iran for his political beliefs, only to lose it in 2009 after his immigration lawyer was jailed for immigration fraud.

The Immigration Minister has denied claims that Christian victims of persecution are being denied asylum... More

An immigration judge can not quiz asylum seekers on religious doctrine to see if they are credible about their faith, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reiterated in a January ruling.

DeKelaita, an immigration attorney, has helped hundreds of Iraqi Christians apply for asylum, according to The Christian Science Monitor.

CT noted when Bennett was named the religious freedom ambassador (two years late), as well as several cases where Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board denied asylum because applicants demonstrated poor knowledge of Christian doctrine.

In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

People have different moral stances on the immigration process, on national identity, on what should qualify someone for asylum, etc..

At government level, the whole issue of asylum is a sensitive one, and being seen as being soft on immigration in any form is never going to be a votewinner.

As part of the stay, the judge will have her application for asylum reviewed again, according to a spokesman for the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

You can hardly turn on the news these days without hearing about immigration and the wall, or Syria and its refugees seeking asylum.

This is importat because asylum is the worst possible immigration status.

The government should allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants living in the UK to become British citizens, Boris Johnson has insisted, as he launched a stinging attack on the government's immigration and asylum policies.

For the thousands of people stuck in Britain's arcane immigration and asylum system, Christian compassion can sometimes seem a very alien thing indeed.

Johnson launched his strongest attack yet on the government's immigration and asylum policies.

Her work focuses on EU law and policy on asylum and immigration.

It is an area I find particularly interesting, bearing in mind my earlier responsibilities in Westminster, where in the mid-90s Conservative government I was the Home Office minister responsible for immigration and asylum.

With Israel and Europe both accepting immigration, It would be surprising if French Jew would be attempting to use the asylum route in anything but the smallest numbers.

When MPs were asked which issues they think will be very important in helping people decide which party to vote for a fifth (22 %) cited «crime, justice and policing», but this paled in comparison to the 87 % who said «managing the economy» and 78 % who predicted «asylum and immigration».

Issues of asylum and immigration have been an issue of controversy in recent weeks, with the home secretary's decision to split the UK Border Agency after a scandal over lax passport checks emerged.

Theresa May and her cabinet hold fast to a commitment to reduce net immigration numbers and, in an effort to make the approach more politically palatable, present a rigid dichotomy between the dishonest, criminal, «illegal» migrant (a category which usually includes asylum seekers), and the hard working, tax - paying, rule - observing migrant.

In this case, those harmed included survivors of torture who came to the UK seeking asylum, only to face re-traumatisation from being locked up in immigration detention centres.

Monday, March 25, 2013 in Housing, Immigration and asylum, Local government and local elections, Welfare reform Permalink Comments

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Asylum at heartWe were encouraged that, on the first few days of a new government, the prime minister and his deputy declared they would end child detention for immigration purposes.

Spurred by fear of Trump's immigration policies, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking asylum and crossing illegally from upstate New York into Canada.

The Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed that the Government will set out plans for further tackling immigration and asylum early in 2005.

The free movement of persons within the Schengen space has not been completed by a fully fledged common asylum and immigration policy and management of external borders.

In 2008, the European Union finally decided to give a new impetus to the development of a common immigration and asylum policy.

Some 14 years ago, at the EU Summit in Tampere, European leaders called on the European Union to develop common policies on asylum and immigration so that there is a harmonized or common way for immigrants and asylum seekers to seek and obtain entry to all EU states.

The use of dawn raids to forcibly remove failed asylum seekers from their homes will continue in Scotland, the immigration minister has said.

Immigration and asylum reporting centres were closed, hundreds of asylum interviews cancelled and juxtaposed immigration controls at Calais non-operational today, as up to 10,500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency, went on stImmigration and asylum reporting centres were closed, hundreds of asylum interviews cancelled and juxtaposed immigration controls at Calais non-operational today, as up to 10,500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency, went on stimmigration controls at Calais non-operational today, as up to 10,500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency, went on stImmigration Agency, went on strike today.

Today's one day strike in the Home Office, the second this year over pay, saw Leeds and Liverpool asylum reporting centres closed, pickets outside the Glasgow office and immigration officers staffing the Calais juxtaposed border controls walk out.

The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.

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The largest group of JR applications were Immigration and Asylum (IA) cases (almost 10,000 in 2012, or 80 % of the total).

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

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An immigration officer has been suspended after allegations that he offered to help a teenage asylum seeker in return for sexual favours.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

Sunday, September 06, 2009 in Cameronism, Compassionate conservatism, Conservative strategy, Education, Ex-leaders, Family and relationships, Foreign affairs, Immigration and asylum, International development, Law and order, Mission Week, Realignment, Tax and spending, The big picture, The Shoestring manifesto, Welfare reform Permalink Comments (62)

As former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis argued so powerfully in yesterday's Mail, it would greatly strengthen Britain's hand at the negotiating table if our Prime Minister could claim a popular mandate for opt - outs on such issues as justice, asylum, immigration and human rights.