Sentences with phrase «including undocumented immigrants»

Our doors are open to everyone, including undocumented immigrants and refugees.

De Blasio also took the opportunity to encourage people to sign up for IDNYC, a municipal ID program that is available to all city residents including undocumented immigrants, and told the crowd to learn more about Get Covered NYC, an effort to enroll more New Yorkers in Obamacare.

The IDNYC program, launched by de Blasio's administration in 2015, aimed to remove barriers that some New Yorkers face in obtaining identification — including undocumented immigrants, the homeless, transgendered individuals, and the formerly incarcerated — granting them access to important city services.

Menchaca noted how Nixon, who is challenging Gov. Cuomo in the Democratic primary, held a press conference outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Syracuse calling for driver's licenses for everyone in the state, including undocumented immigrants.

In - state tuition rates for all Texas students, including undocumented immigrant students, must remain.

Allowing all students who pay into institutional aid to access it, including undocumented immigrant students, is the fair and right thing to do.

Not exact matches

This concerns local police who say they need the cooperation of all people in the community, including lawful and undocumented immigrants, in reporting crime and aiding criminal prosecutions.

President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday the end of an Obama - era program that protects children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, but he may include a six - month delay, according to The New York Times.

President Barack Obama's plan would let up to 4.7 million of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States stay without threat of deportation, including some 4.4 million who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.

Citing data from the Department of Homeland Security and the Migration Policy Institute, the Washington Post reported that there are 1.9 million «removable criminal aliens» in the U.S., a category that includes any non-citizens with a criminal conviction — both legal residents and undocumented immigrants.

CNN reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been targeting undocumented immigrants since February, including those in the food industry.

For the uninitiated, this is legal tussle that stems from Trump's «rapists» comments about undocumented immigrants from Mexico, following which Univision terminated its contractual relationship (including television broadcast obligations) with the Trump - backed Miss Universe Organization.

The Immigration and Nationality Act says anyone who knowingly harbors an undocumented immigrant «in any place, including any building» can be sent to jail for years.

This includes 100 arrests a day of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record.

A majority of Hispanic Christians who don't hold US citizenship are concerned about their place in Trump's America, including 51 percent of green card holders and 57 percent of undocumented immigrants, according to Pew.

They add to the six other PSAs released throughout the month, including Rocsi Diaz's «The Secrets of Strangers» highlighting undocumented immigrants, Jeremy Iron's «The Indomitable American Spirit» celebrating the journey immigrants have made to the United States throughout history, and Skylar Grey's moving «Coming Home» spot honoring immigrants in the military, among others.

Not surprisingly, DeFrancisco insisted Senate Republicans remain opposed to the DREAM Act, a measure that would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, saying he would be «shocked» if the provision was included in a final deal.

Liberty recommends that anyone considering taking up the Home Office's offer consults organisations helping undocumented survivors, including Doctors of the World, North Kensington Law Centre and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.

The measure includes tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, a bill that has stalled in the Legislature, but has been pushed over the years by Democratic legislators.

The White House presented Congress with an expansive list of hard - line immigration measures, including an $ 18 billion request to build a wall at the Mexican border, that President Trump is demanding in exchange for protecting young undocumented immigrants.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed an $ 84.86 billion executive budget that includes funding for the beginnings of a pre-K expansion, legal services for undocumented immigrants and more even as the city grapples with the potential of federal budget cuts from Trump.

The measure includes language in support of raising the age of criminal responsibility, support for the extension of tax rates on millionaires that expire at the end of the year and the backing of the DREAM Act, a measure that provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor takes on a recent measure by the New York State Education Department's Board of Regents that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses, including certification to teach in public schools.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, and campaign finance reform.

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Staten Island Republicans convinced a state Apellate Division court to uphold an an injunction against Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to dump the personal files of applicants to the city's municipal identification program, files believed to include the personal information of thousands of undocumented immigrants — prompting the administration to announce it would no longer hold on to any personal records of IDNYC participants at all.

But the budget likely won't include proposals to end cash bail for some offenses, provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants or other issues important to progressives that Cuomo proposed in his initial bills.

The budget also includes an Education Tax Credit which would provide a large credit for donations to schools and the Dream Act which would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

The Dream Act — which provides state tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — wasn't included following a public back and forth with Latino members of the Legislature.

A number of other items that Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

The Republican head noted that the offenses Mr. Grimm stands accused of — including hiring and underpaying undocumented immigrants — are common practice among small - scale enterprises

On Tuesday, after meeting with Republican senators, Cuomo said he included the Dream Act — which extends tuition assistance programs to undocumented immigrants — and a tax credit to offset educational donations as a «statement of priority,» not an item he was actually going to the mat over.

The Assembly's resolution will also include a program of medicinal marijuana, funding to give undocumented immigrants tuition support, and a rejection of Cuomo's plan for an effective «freeze» on local government property taxes.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

The endorsement comes after 1199's political director, Kevin Finnegan, announced his group was committed to swinging the State Senate into the Democratic column, in order to pass its liberal statewide initiatives — including college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, a locally set minimum wage and taxpayer - funded elections.

There are a number of nonspending items tied to the budget, including the Child Victims Act, to give victims of childhood sexual abuse greater access to the courts, and the Dream Act, which would qualify children of undocumented immigrants for college aid.

A number of other items that Governor Andrew Cuomo initially tied to passage of the budget also were dropped, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, and an education tax credit sought by the Catholic Church, among others.

A Board of Regents rule change allowing undocumented immigrants to receive a number of professional certifications, including teaching, goes into effect today.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

A Board of Regents» move last week that paves the way for undocumented immigrants to get state - granted professional licenses, including teacher certifications, is prompting some ongoing blowback among Republican lawmakers.

During his weekly «Ask the Mayor» segment, WNYC's Brian Lehrer highlighted several of de Blasio's left - wing headaches, including the language City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted into the city budget requiring the $ 26 million program to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those found guilty of violent crimes — in defiance of de Blasio's declaration that foreign nationals convicted of rape, murder or terrorism should not benefit from city funds.

To avoid a situation in which only undocumented immigrants apply for the card, which could create a stigma and make some unwary about the I.D.s, Mr. de Blasio's administration has rolled out many perks for all New Yorkers who sign up — including yearlong memberships to cultural institutions like the Bronx Zoo and access to all three of the city's public library systems.

That means many of the same issues that were gridlocked in the legislature in the past are likely to remain so, including the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, abortion rights measures, and ending the incarceration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds in adult prisons.

Liberal groups and voices have for years painted the IDC as a block against progressive priorities, including public campaign finance and extending college tuition subsidies to undocumented immigrants.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, as well as campaign finance reform.

Several items that Cuomo had tied to the budget are not currently in the spending plan, including bail reform, the Child Victims Act for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and the Dream Act to provide college aid for children of undocumented immigrants.

When it comes to passing the DREAM Act to grant college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant students, and the Education Investment Tax Credit to incentivize private donations to parochial and public schools, Mr. Cuomo's office said he would prefer to pass them in the budget, but if they are not included they could be passed later.