Sentences with phrase «noncitizens with»

In many cases vacating a criminal conviction is the only solution for a noncitizen with a criminal record.

Not exact matches

The Cuomo administration says the program actually saves money for the state by leveraging federal aid for certain noncitizens whose care is now fully paid for with state dollars.

His latest salvo is an on - line petition against a plan, introduced just as the 2014 session drew to a close by Bronx Sen. Gustavo Rivera, called the New York is Home Act, which would enable nearly 3 million noncitizens who meet specific criteria to apply for citizenship with New York's Office for New Americans.

With their new clout, progressives in the City Council will undoubtedly take on many of the legislative priorities they've been touting for months, including council rule reforms and passing a new living wage law that would benefit unions and pro-immigrant policies like noncitizen voting, which the mayor opposes.

«Children in noncitizen families and in families that have lived here at least 10 years make slightly larger contributions to child poverty than families with naturalized citizen parents and those who arrived here more recently,» Joo said.

Immigrants Raising Citizens Creates Problems We Ignore The Dallas Morning News, December 28, 2012 «An in - depth three - year study by the Harvard School of Education's Hirokazu Yoshikawa reached stunning conclusions about the harmful consequences for these young American children growing up with marginalized noncitizen parents.»

She is currently conducting mixed - methods research on: 1) the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, 2) immigration detention, deportation, and the intersections of immigration and criminal law, and 3) Legally vulnerable workers including noncitizens and individuals with criminal records.

Noncitizens who are not required to register with Selective Service include men who are in the U.S. on student or visitor visas, and men who are part of a diplomatic or trade mission and their families.

Be a U.S. citizen or an eligible noncitizen (check with your institution) with a valid Social Security number.

By articulating and circulating innovative, expert legal arguments and leading the effort to help criminal defense and immigration practitioners understand the intersection of criminal and immigration law, we help keep noncitizens in the U.S. with their families, communities, and loved ones.

One last surprise: These opinions are fully consistent with Justice Kennedy's vote in Padilla v. Kentucky, recognizing that ineffective assistance of counsel protects a noncitizen defendant's right to accurate information about deportation before he pleads guilty.

Internships are also available with the BDS Immigration Practice in three focus areas: Padilla, where attorneys work closely with BDS criminal defenders to avoid or minimize negative immigration consequences of their noncitizen clients» criminal cases pursuant to our obligations under the Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky; the Youth and Communities Project providing BDS clients and Brooklyn residents with affirmative immigration benefits and removal defense; and the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), a first - in - the - nation program that provides legal representation for indigent New Yorkers in detained removal proceedings.

First, Padilla attorneys work in close collaboration with BDS criminal defenders to avoid or minimize the negative immigration consequences of their noncitizen clients» criminal cases, and to ensure clients are fully advised of those consequences pursuant to our obligations under the Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky.

In law school, Ariel was a student advocate with the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, assisting with cancellation of removal cases for indigent noncitizens, and an editor for the Journal of International Law and Policy.

With Norton Tooby, she is the co-author of the 2014 CEB publication California Criminal Defense of Immigrants, and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice.

Additionally, the Immigration Impact Unit provides attorneys within all divisions with training, litigation support and advice in individual cases regarding immigration consequences for noncitizens clients.

Staffed by the Immigrant Defense Project, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Defending Immigrants Partnership collaborates with public defender offices and criminal defense organizations on behalf of noncitizens facing criminal charges.