Sentences with phrase «in enforcing our immigration laws»

«Detainee escorts have a very difficult job to do in carrying out what the public expects of the UK Border Agency in enforcing our immigration laws,» David Wood of the UK Border Agency said.

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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a letter to Sessions that Oregon state law dating back to 1987 prohibits state and local police from enforcing federal immigration law.

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.

Although compassionate in its intent to allow those who came to the United States unlawfully as children and through no fault of their own to begin the process of integrating legally into United States society, it contributes to the current crisis at the border by further signaling United States policy not to enforce its immigration laws against low priority targets.

«If enforced, the law will place Alabama church members in the untenable position of verifying individuals» immigration documentation before being able to follow God's word to «love thy neighbor as thyself,»» the lawsuit states.

Even if they did, we exist to protect every person in our city — not to enforce federal immigration laws.»

The Trump administration announced Tuesday a plan to aggressively enforce current immigration laws, which is expected to result in more and quicker deportations for undocumented immigrants.

In Cicero, the Interfaith Leadership Council secured an agreement with the Cicero Police Department to issue a regulation dissuading officers from enforcing immigration law.

Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.

«Nearly everyone in the immigration debate has claimed to favor enforcing the immigration laws.

Ms. Gillibrand's potential problems stem from a number of positions she held while in the House, including her support of gun rights and for cracking down on so - called sanctuary cities like New York that do not enforce all immigration laws.

Your support for the deputizing of local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law by voting in support of the Drake Amendment to H.R. 2638; 2.

He announced a wave of measures to improve the way the directorate deals with immigration, and Home Office minister Liam Byrne said today that the first step in this effort was ensuring current laws were properly enforced.

Among other provisions, the county measure calls for county employees to not stop, question, interrogate or arrest individuals «solely for the purpose of enforcing immigration law»; to not perform the functions of a federal immigration officer; to honor detainer requests from federal agents only in specific limited situations; and to deny federal agents access to inmates in county custody.

Among other provisions, the measure calls for county employees to not stop, question, interrogate or arrest individuals «solely for the purpose of enforcing immigration law»; to not perform the functions of a federal immigration officer; to honor detainer requests from federal agents only in specific limited situations; and to deny federal agents access to inmates in county custody.

The 2010 law says officers, while enforcing other laws, can question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally.

Now, educators and policymakers in that state are scrambling to determine whether and how to enforce the new law, a direct challenge to Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that asserts that public schools must provide all students an education, regardless of their immigration status.

Some are offering in - state tuition and financial aid to unauthorized students and others are approving more spending to enforce immigration laws.

The Tenth Amendment of United States limits the federal government's ability to mandate that states take a particular action including in the area of federal immigration law enforcement investigations in order to enforce a federal statutory or regulatory scheme.

Under set changes to immigration laws to be enforced April next year, employees could be looking at a five year visa costing in the region of around # 7,000.

In the (highly) unlikely event that that Act (and relevant secondary legislation, such as the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1003)(the EEA Regulations)-RRB- were to be repealed prior to the conclusion of a withdrawal agreement, affected individuals would find themselves in the unusual (and probably uncomfortable) position that, despite the fact that, as a matter of EU law, they continue to enjoy a right of residence, those rights would be difficult (if not impossible) to enforce in or through the English courts (other than in reliance of any «direct effect» of the relevant EU provisionsIn the (highly) unlikely event that that Act (and relevant secondary legislation, such as the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1003)(the EEA Regulations)-RRB- were to be repealed prior to the conclusion of a withdrawal agreement, affected individuals would find themselves in the unusual (and probably uncomfortable) position that, despite the fact that, as a matter of EU law, they continue to enjoy a right of residence, those rights would be difficult (if not impossible) to enforce in or through the English courts (other than in reliance of any «direct effect» of the relevant EU provisionsin the unusual (and probably uncomfortable) position that, despite the fact that, as a matter of EU law, they continue to enjoy a right of residence, those rights would be difficult (if not impossible) to enforce in or through the English courts (other than in reliance of any «direct effect» of the relevant EU provisionsin or through the English courts (other than in reliance of any «direct effect» of the relevant EU provisionsin reliance of any «direct effect» of the relevant EU provisions).

Sought and apprehended aliens who are illegally in the United States; apprehending smugglers, and enforcing the criminal provisions of the Immigration and Nationality laws.