Sentences with phrase «immigration enforcement efforts»

These civil rights abuses show the potential costs of state and local law enforcement assistance in federal immigration enforcement efforts.

The speaker noted that under her tenure, the City Council has passed legislation significantly reducing the city's cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts except in the cases of violent offenders, and that it has fully financed programs that offer universal representation to detained immigrants and unaccompanied minors and young mothers with children placed in expedited removal proceedings.

But immigrant advocacy groups and Democrats have expressed concern that the Trump administration will escalate immigration enforcement efforts in line with the president's tough stance toward illegal immigrants.

Attorneys general from six states and Washington D.C., led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, are set to release a report that contends cities can limit their involvement with immigration enforcement efforts without flouting federal law.

Also at 11 a.m., Reps. Adriano Espaillat, Suzanne Bonamici, José Serrano, and Don Beyer will introduce new legislation to expand safe zones to prohibit immigration enforcement efforts at various public locations, House Triangle, (Capitol East Front), Washington, D.C.

Attorney General Eric Schneiederman earlier this month provided a legal guidance to cities in New York that have passed measures designed to not coordinate with certain immigration enforcement efforts from the federal government.

It is ICE's practice to deny fugitive alien FOIA requesters access to the FOIA process when the records requested could assist the alien in continuing to evade immigration enforcement efforts.

Cities that refuse to coordinate with federal immigration enforcement efforts can not be stripped of federal funding, a judge ruled in a blow to President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said he would review a bill that would prohibit New York state and local police from participating in immigration enforcement efforts with federal law enforcement, a measure that passed the Democratic - led Assembly this week.

Despite these threats, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center found that sanctuary protections were strengthened across 410 localities and five states in 2017, restricting the use of their agencies» time, money, or other resources from being spent on federal immigration enforcement efforts.