Sentences with phrase «immigration officials say»

Immigration officials said Tuesday that they had no plans to release substantially more detainees this week, though they warned that more releases were still possible depending on the outcome of budget negotiations.

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«It's OK to give them a heads - up that they're set to expire,» says Daniel Brown, a D.C. - based immigration lawyer and former Homeland Security official.

A senior White House official said Trump does not believe he has an ally on this issue in Graham, a Republican who has long tried to partner with Democrats on immigration legislation.

Collectively, the Justice Department officials said, these three laws improperly attempt to regulate federal immigration at the state level.

Officials at the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services maintain that the new phone system is working «quite well» and that the agency's monthly customer - service surveys show an average 80 percent satisfaction rate, spokesman Russ Knocke said.

They will not participate in any direct law enforcement or immigration enforcement activities, as both California and federal government officials have repeatedly said.

But Mr. Sessions has sought to enforce immigration laws as they exist now, and has balked at Mr. Obama's executive actions in internal debates, administration officials said.

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

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When they had finished, an immigration official told Martina not to say anything about what she had done, and she didn't.

Even so, Arturo Gonzalez says, immigration officials are balking on stopping operations in Chicago.

The number of Jews from the former Soviet Union living in Chicago and the suburbs has grown significantly since the first wave of immigration in 1971, officials said.

Federal immigration officials arrested 225 people in a sweeping six - day raid in the five boroughs and surrounding counties, officials said.

Thirty - nine members of MS - 13, a brutal gang with roots in Central America, were arrested by the immigration authorities in New York in the past month, officials said.

The Trump administration would cut or delay funding for border surveillance, radar technology, patrol boats and customs agents in its upcoming spending plan to curb illegal immigration — all proven security measures that officials and experts have said are more effective than building a wall along the Mexican border.

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold funding from «sanctuary cities» that do not cooperate with U.S. immigration officials, saying the president has no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending.

On the national level the proposed legislation appears to be in sync with White House policy and with immigration officials who said they will exercise «prosecutorial discretion.»

Federal immigration officials arrested more than 600 people across at least 11 states last week, detaining 40 people in the New York City area, law enforcement officials said.

Police and federal officials, though, countered that they remain focused on curtailing a gang that preys on immigrants and said the steps they take are based on evidence.The report by the New York Immigration Coalition and the Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law warns about the danger of law - enforcement agencies slipping into profiling and discriminatory policing.»

With more than 70,000 officials employed across the department, dealing with everything from anti-social behaviour to immigration and prisons, the ippr says individual civil service accountability is the only way to deliver real change.

President Donald Trump will tout the accomplishments in his first year of office and talk about infrastructure and immigration initiatives he's sending to Congress in his State of the Union address Tuesday, a senior administration official said.

And the Democrat has not minced words in expressing his opposition to the Trump administration's restrictions on immigration, saying immigration officials should deport the governor first, since his grandparents were immigrants.

O'Neill has defied the President in the past, saying in February that his officers will not enforce administrative warrants issued by federal immigration officials as a result of the expansive deportation policies.

Jose Antonio Ramos, one of the «Buffalo 25» arrested by immigration officials last October at several Buffalo area Mexican restaurants, said he does not «understand this new president» and his executive order that instills «fear walking the streets.»

In the final weeks of the official Vote Leave campaign, there was precious little said about «global Britain» and much more about immigration and «taking back control».

Mayor Bill de Blasio says President Donald Trump's immigration authorities engaged in a «provocative action» when they detained a prominent Trinidadian - American immigrant activist last week and appeared to defend the NYPD amid criticisms over its treatment of protestors and elected officials rallying in support of the activist.

And he has not minced words in expressing his opposition to the Trump administration's restrictions on immigration, saying officials should deport him first, since his grandparents were immigrants.

Local Sheriff Gene Conway said he has never received a request from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain an undocumented immigrant during his two years in office.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio says Trump's immigration authorities engaged in a «provocative action» when they detained a prominent Trinidadian - American immigrant activist last week and appeared to defend the NYPD amid criticisms over its treatment of protestors and elected officials rallying in support of the activist.

The agency has already committed one quarter of its operation effort at groups that exploit immigration and Mr Reid said the evidence it could share with immigration officials was invaluable.

Describing the president's immigration plan as «extremely generous» but a take - it - or - leave - it proposal, White House officials said they hoped it would be embraced by conservatives and centrists in Congress as the first step in an even broader effort to fix the nation's immigration system.

But, he supports cooperation with federal immigration officials and has repeatedly said in the past that immigration policies need to be defined at the national level.

Thus, we stand together with state and city officials and other advocates to protect the rights of our nation's immigrants and refugees in these difficult and troubling times,» said Lauren Wyatt, Esq., Staff Attorney, Immigration Court Helpdesk, Catholic Charities Community Services.

The Conservatives» «irresponsible and illogical» immigration policies are stopping nurses coming to work in Wales and the Borders, William Powell AM has said after receiving complaints on the issue from an NHS official.

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services officials said the purpose of the visit was to check facts about the enrollment of the publicly unidentified student at PS 58, and staffers in the building confirmed to agents that the student did not attend the school.

CITY HALL — The court system's administrative office and its chief judge need to act swiftly — and be more bold — in establishing a plan to protect New Yorkers from courthouse interference from federal immigration agents, elected officials and activists said Thursday.

Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the measures would send a clear message that Rikers Island was not to function as an «interrogation pen» for immigration officials.

Meghan Maloney, a senior outreach official with the New York Immigration Project, said Thursday that the arrest of construction workers this week by the U.S. Border Patrol indicates a stepped - up enforcement effort.

Mark - Viverito also said the Council would create a «comprehensive system» to limit the city's gathering of personal data Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials might use to deport people.

«Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I urge federal immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children,» Paterson said at the time.

Schneiderman said local law enforcement should honor requests by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officials to detain someone only in limited circumstances, such as when there is a signed judicial warrant.

Stephen Morello of the Department of Correction called in to say those beds won't go to federal immigration officials, whose presence on Rikers has been the subject of some controversy.

Other officials said the new law should spur officials to act on immigration reform in Washington.

«We had an exploratory conversation with them,» said Morello of federal immigration officials renting beds.

During his first two years, Conway never received a request from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to detain an undocumented immigrant, he said.

Meng said that P.S. 58 officials «did the right thing» by repulsing the immigration agent from the premises, saying that schools should be a «safe and welcoming environment» for all students regardless of their immigration status or the status of their families.

«That immigration officials do not credit rehabilitation, nor account for human suffering is adverse to the values that our country represents,» Governor Paterson said.

Tony Callisto, senior vice president for safety and chief law enforcement officer, said in a statement to the SU community on Monday that the Department of Public Safety neither inquires about immigration status of individuals on campus nor assists federal officials in immigration investigations or raids.

Schneiderman said there were also reports of unsolicited calls from individuals pretending to be immigration officials seeking money.