Sentences with phrase «immigration detainers»

"Immigration detainers" refers to requests made by immigration authorities to local law enforcement agencies to detain individuals who are suspected of being in the country illegally. These requests typically ask local authorities to hold these individuals for a period of time to allow immigration agents to take them into custody for possible deportation. Full definition
she asked, referring to the city's policy of not cooperating with federal immigration detainer requests except for certain violent offenses.
The New York City Council overwhelmingly passed legislation today to stop the Department of Correction and the NYPD from honoring immigration detainers issued by the federal government unless they are accompanied by a judge's warrant.
Malliotakis was harshly critical of Mayor de Blasio's efforts at limiting NYPD and Department of Corrections» enforcing immigration detainers.
Ms. Mark - Viverito argued it is «unfair and it is un-American» to hold people for a civil immigration detainer without a warrant or a showing of probable cause that a crime has been committed.
Prior to the ILRC, Lena was a Soros Justice Fellow at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, where she supported campaigns against local law enforcement involvement in deportations and litigated immigration detainer issues in federal courts.
Judge Dora Irizarry ruled that the government can not decide to criminally prosecute immigrants and then keep them locked up on immigration detainers, if, as their cases proceed, they are granted bail.
Not long before President Barack Obama signed an immigration executive order on November 20, Mayor Bill deBlasio and City Council Speaker MelissaMark - Viverito took their own action — enacting a law to stop the city's police and corrections departments from cooperating with federal immigration detainers meant to deport undocumented immigrants.
New Paltz police can respond to a «civil immigration detainer» from federal authorities for up to 48 hours if the request is accompanied by a judicial warrant.
Turner and the Democrats opposed our legislation requiring local jails to honor federal immigration detainers and keep illegal immigrants in state custody.
The City currently enforces those immigration detainers only in limited circumstances, with those circumstances including a for persons convicted of specified «serious» crimes.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signs bills limiting cooperation with immigration detainers.
The council voted 41 in favor and 6 against on two bills that will largely end cooperation with the federal government when it requests an immigration detainer — which asks Corrections or the NYPD to hold a person for 48 hours when they might otherwise be released so that the person can be handed over the the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
The book includes chapters on defense of juveniles, requirements for immigration applications (asylum, cancellation, etc.), immigration detainers and detention, and post-conviction relief.
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