Sentences with phrase «many unauthorized immigrants»

«Many Americans believe that the presence of unauthorized immigrants is harmful to the economy and would like to see steps taken to reduce their presence.

Democrats will face their toughest odds on codifying DACA, the Obama - era immigration program that shields from deportation more than 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who entered the US as minors.

Approximately half of the unauthorized immigrants targeted in a set of deportation raids in February have no criminal records or traffic offenses, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by The Washington Post.

In March, the Trump administration started releasing reports publicly naming counties that refused to honor federal requests to detain people who were suspected of being unauthorized immigrants.

Despite the president's and attorney - general's assurances, Trump's administration has repeatedly cracked down on unauthorized immigrants, as well as the jurisdictions that protect them.

President Donald Trump and lawmakers have been at loggerheads for months over the fate of young unauthorized immigrants known as «Dreamers,» who are temporarily protected from deportation under the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

In the most recent bout of negotiations over the weekend, the deal reportedly sputtered out over the number of unauthorized immigrants covered under the deal, and certain immigration enforcement - related measures that Republicans wanted to include but Democrats considered nonstarters.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he is «encouraged» by President Donald Trump's discussions with Democrats to protect the status of Dreamers, the thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Short of mass deportation, the most aggressive thing the federal government could do to crack down on the 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently in the US would be to require all employers to use the E-Verify system to check the legal status of anyone they've hired or are hiring.

While the E-Verify system has well - documented problems (both in terms of falsely identifying legal workers as «illegal» and failing to catch unauthorized immigrants), making it universal could still kick millions of unauthorized immigrants out of work or force them into the underpaid underground economy.

When President Donald Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September, he said he was giving Congress six months to find a legislative solution that would allow the 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants currently protected from deportation under DACA to stay in the country legally.

In response, the United States government sent would - be unauthorized immigrants mixed messages.

One of the plaintiffs, Episcopal Bishop Henry Parsley Jr., said Tuesday that religious leaders were worried over a provision in the law that will make transporting or harboring unauthorized immigrants a crime.

Once those enforcement programs are fully in place (not promised, actually in place), our residual population of unauthorized immigrants should receive both amnesty and a fairly speedy path to US citizenship.

President Obama's recent actions to effectively exempt millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation and to issue them work permits has caused frustration among many who believe that neither the precedents nor the law support the his actions.

From Steve King's comments about unauthorized immigrant children to Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, it can seem that our politics is forcing us to choose between the foreign and native - born members of our working - class.

There have been two recent attempts at amnesty for unauthorized immigrants.

They would rather see every unauthorized immigrant die of old age without gaining legal status than risk effective enforcement of our immigration laws.

The result is that the unauthorized immigrant population is still in the shadows after popular opposition doomed both recent attempts at amnesty.

The elite right claims the mantle of realism because it argues (correctly) that the U.S. is not going to adopt a policy of mass deportation for long - established unauthorized immigrants.

Adopting a program of deporting the most current unauthorized immigrants isn't going to work.

The irony is that the burden of this compromise does not fall on either immigration restrictionists or unauthorized immigrants.

There would be no mass deportations, but unauthorized immigrants would only be legalized after border and internal enforcement were in place.

This also implies the relocation of unauthorized immigrants throughout Europe to those countries until their cases are adjudicated with the consequence of particularly Greece and Italy being turned into the «waiting rooms» of irregular immigrants to Europe.

This new report finds that unauthorized immigrants are responsible for $ 40 billion, or three percent, of New York's economic output, and make up five percent of the labor force.

An innovative analysis compares the vehicle ownership rates in households that include an unauthorized immigrant with other immigrant households.

The amount of state and local taxes collected from unauthorized immigrants is estimated to increase by $ 86 million once federal executive actions are fully in place.

The Fiscal Policy Institute looks at the experience of five states and the District of Columbia, and finds that, based on these examples, between 25 percent and 50 percent of unauthorized immigrants over the age of 16 obtain a license in the first three years.

Those records are believed to hold the personal information of thousands of unauthorized immigrants, for whom the program was designed, and the Council added the deletion proviso to the legislation as an explicit precaution should a deportation - happy candidate win the White House and seek to requisition the databanks.

About 9,000 unauthorized immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program work in the nation's schools.

By signing a pair of executive orders, President Trump began a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration, ordering the immediate construction of a border wall with Mexico and aggressive efforts to find and deport unauthorized immigrants.

It is a tough immigration bill with a soft side that protects those who hire unauthorized immigrants «for the purpose of obtaining labor or other work to be performed exclusively or primarily at a single - family residence.»

«The Economic Impacts of Removing Unauthorized Immigrant Workers», Center for American Progress report by Queens College Economics Professors Ryan Edwards and Francesc Ortega, Sep. 2016

Five years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order that allowed young, unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the country as children to work, go to school, and get a driver's license without fear of deportation.

The researchers analyzed emergency Medicaid claims data from 5653 unauthorized immigrant mothers from Oregon, all born between 1980 and 1982.

«How often are unauthorized immigrant workers trafficked, abused?.»

Trump promised to end the flow of unauthorized immigrants, kick them out of the country, and seal the border with Mexico.

The New York Times reported that council member Jacob Monty and his colleagues had taken Trump at his word when, while meeting with the new council, the candidate «appeared humble,» «acknowledged the difficulty of deporting 11 million unauthorized immigrants,» and «suggested that he was working on a new policy that included a path to legalization.»

Without proper oversight of existing legal framework such as Plyler that protects unauthorized immigrants and their families, states and districts can indirectly or openly violate these regulations.

While at least 20 states offer in - state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, other states extend in - state tuition only to DACA recipients.

Enforce existing regulations that protect unauthorized immigrants.

In September 2017, President Donald Trump put 20,000 teachers at risk of deportation1 when he terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — the Obama - era initiative that grants temporary protection to unauthorized immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

New Jersey passed a law earlier in May that allows unauthorized immigrants to apply for state financial aid to pay for college.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy just recently signed a bill into law that will open up state financial aid for unauthorized immigrants.

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The court reasoned that» [w] e can not read the Open Courts Clause's «every person» guarantee to exclude unauthorized immigrants.»

In Escamilla v. Shiel Sexton Co., Inc., 73 N.E. 3d 663 (Ind. 2017), an unauthorized immigrant (a Mexican citizen) was injured while working as a masonry laborer at an Indiana job site.

Trump's only loss on that front, his first Labor Department nominee Andrew Puzder, dropped out after acknowledging that he'd hired an unauthorized immigrant as a housekeeper.