Sentences with phrase «of immigrant status»

Effect of immigrant status on risk of depressive symptoms associated with spouse's chronic conditions

«I think people, regardless of their immigrant status, deserve equal protection under the law.»

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The order is likely to grant legal status to nearly half of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., giving many access for the first time to legitimate work visas, or protection from deportation.

Kelly, asked on Sunday morning talk shows to clarify the department's position on the status of these illegal immigrants protected under an Obama - era program, said the agency is focused on deporting only dangerous criminals.

On Jan. 10, he offered to support a Democratic goal — providing legal status to some 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — in exchange for money for the wall as part of down - to - the - wire negotiations for a short - term budget.

The delay would give Congress time to pass legislation that addresses the status of the estimated 800,000 immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or the DACA program.

«The next president of the United States will pass meaningful immigration reform so that it will be solved, and not by executive order,» Bush said, referring to President Obama's executive order from November, which legalized the status of 5 million undocumented immigrants.

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

These immigrants therefore had to be managed through legislation that made their undocumented status a crime in and of itself.

Hartsock harks back to her own status as a Chilean immigrant in describing the less obvious, more emotional impact of lobbying Congress to maintain the H - 1B visa system.

Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote in throwing out A) a requirement that police try to determine the immigration status of people they stop under suspicion of even minor crimes; B) a law that made it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek employment; and C) a law that let police arrest a person without a warrant if they believed the person may have committed a crime that could lead to deportation.

Recent publications include Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada (co-edited with P. Landolt), and an IRPP report on «The Impact of Precarious Legal Status on Immigrants» Economic Outcomes» (with P. Landolt).

The immigration bill the Democrats nearly passed dramatically increased the number of temporary status residents and pliable labor immigrants, while cutting family based immigration.

He also objected that Democratic proposals to adjust the visa lottery and federal policy for immigrants with temporary protected status were going to drive more people from countries he deemed undesirable into the United States instead of attracting immigrants from places like Norway and Asia, people familiar with the meeting said.

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.

If these would - be immigrants aren't actually filling jobs for which out - of - work Canadians are available — as claimed — then why are they being denied the opportunity to gain permanent residency status?

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.

On a press call this afternoon, a Honduran TPS holder living in Miami, Mayor Bauters of Emeryville, California, and Florida community leaders discussed the importance of extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the 57,000 Honduran immigrants currently protected under the... Continue reading»

America's Voice 56 Members of Congress Urge DHS Extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 57,000 Legal Honduran Immigrants Listen to the «A is for America» Podcast with Tania Chavez of LUPE ICYMI: The Guardian: Trump could end protected status for Hondurans — «condemning them to total misery» Republican AGs Attack Dreamers, Go Forum - Shopping for Anti-Immigrant... Continue reading&Status (TPS) for 57,000 Legal Honduran Immigrants Listen to the «A is for America» Podcast with Tania Chavez of LUPE ICYMI: The Guardian: Trump could end protected status for Hondurans — «condemning them to total misery» Republican AGs Attack Dreamers, Go Forum - Shopping for Anti-Immigrant... Continue reading&status for Hondurans — «condemning them to total misery» Republican AGs Attack Dreamers, Go Forum - Shopping for Anti-Immigrant... Continue reading»

America's Voice Frank Sharry y Juan Escalante reaccionan a la demanda de Ken Paxton sobre DACA, el más reciente ataque contra los Dreamers ICYMI: New York Daily News Op - Ed: Canceling protected status for Nepalese immigrants will devastate my family ICYMI: Politico PRO and Newsy Highlight the Urgency of Hondurans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading&status for Nepalese immigrants will devastate my family ICYMI: Politico PRO and Newsy Highlight the Urgency of Hondurans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading&Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading»

Honduras TPS Decision Deadline: 5/4/2018, 2 Days As the Honduran Temporary Protected Status (TPS) deadline looms, both Politico PRO and Newsy highlight the fear of various Honduran TPS holders and immigration advocates who are speaking out to urge the Trump Administration to extend TPS for the 57,000 legal immigrants from Honduras.

However, Land said that before current immigrants are granted legal status, the U.S. must» [secure] the border first with measurable metrics that have been certified as met by the federal government in terms of stemming the flow of illegal immigration.»

The plan also broadens the requirements necessary for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children, essentially granting legal status to hundreds of thousands more.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

He supports Obama's executive action granting temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants and the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

But he has partnered with the Trump transition team to address immigration policy, particularly the status of children of undocumented immigrants.

Before this week's news about protections for Salvadoran immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security announced in November that TPS status for Hondurans could end as soon as July, while TPS for Nicaraguans would end in January 2019.

As the Trump administration has shifted policies on undocumented immigrants and individuals with temporary protected status (TPS), putting more individuals at risk of deportation, Christians have quickly brought up the dilemma of mixed - status families, whose children are US citizens but parents are not.

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

This will tend to be even less a danger as Catholics move further away from the status of an immigrant bloc.

How does unemployment or underemployment status of some immigrant parents effect their parenting styles?

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«We are sort of the vanguard and protector of a lot of things that could happen in the state of New York like allowing illegal immigrants to get college tuition, allowing people to serve on juries, allowing people to serve on juries who have no legal status here.»

The long - looming deadline — March 5 — for youthful immigrant Dreamers facing loss of legal status under Obama - era DACA protection came and went yesterday with more of a whimper than a bang.

Mark - Viverito, on the other hand, has been one of the most outspoken supporters of a proposal to grant municipal identification cards to immigrants in New York City, which would allow them to access a number of city services, regardless of their immigration status.

This week, for the first time since I've been in the loop with them, they had a piece of Facebook - worthy visual content, in this case an infographic illustrating their key issue (the imprisonment of immigrants while they wait for a hearing on their status).

Or, for legal non-citizens, even use your real 4 digits - the state can not conclusively check someone's citizenship status based on just 4 digits of SSN and a name, especially for common names (just because your SSN 4 digits matched a non-citizen immigrant in INS's database, doesn't mean that was you.

At 5 p.m., the MinKwon Center for Community Action, DRUM, NYIC and Columbia County New Sanctuary Movement host action to demand that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are not dismantles and to «stop the decriminalization of all undocumented immigrants,» outside Trump Tower, 52nd and 5th avenues, Manhattan.

If a policy was implemented allowing all age eligible immigrants, regardless of immigration status, to obtain a license, the Fiscal Policy Institute estimates that 97,000 additional cars would be purchased and registered in about a three year period, a one percent increase in the total number of vehicles in the state.

McConnell referenced the White House statement, noting that the administration «will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands.»

These include equal protection regardless of immigration status, critical civil rights for immigrant students, and the mandate that the state provide health care and coverage to low - income and immigrant New Yorkers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio repeated his promises to preserve New York City's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants in the face of an imminent executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at punishing so - called «sanctuary cities» that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

«These arrests have created widespread fear of the courts in immigrant and mixed - status communities,» the officials added.

Mark - Viverito, a Puerto Rico native who recently shepherded through a resolution reaffirming the city's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants, would have none of it today.

Besides reviewing the kids» cases, the lawyers have held 100 - plus bilingual «Know Your Rights» orientations, where immigrants are encouraged to take advantage of another of Ms. Mark - VIverito's signature initiatives: the IDNYC municipal identification, which allows any person — regardless of legal status — to make use of nearly all city agencies and organizations.

While the call mostly covered plans to bring the Independent Democratic Conference (I.D.C.) back to the Senate's Democratic caucus, it eventually drifted into a discussion about fear that Wu's status as the son of immigrants could pose an unfortunate contrast in a New York Democratic primary with Hochul's positions on immigration, such as opposing driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Mr. Trump's campaign said he had raised more than $ 5 million on the last day of August, when he visited Mexico and later gave a fiery campaign speech in Arizona renewing his call to deny legal status to any of the millions of immigrants now living in the United States illegally.

In November, in the immediate aftermath of the election, Sarsour blasted the assemblywoman — who is the daughter of Greek and Cuban immigrants — when she tweeted that the Council should focus «half as much effort on the citizens that actually elected them» in response to a tweet by City Council's account emphasizing New York City's status as a so - called «sanctuary city» for immigrants.

When President Donald Trump makes his first address to a joint session of Congress tonight, at least four undocumented immigrants whose temporary legal status could be revoked will be in the House watching him speak as guests of Democratic members of Congress.

Schneiderman's office is among the state attorneys general suing to provide bolstered legal status for dreamers, undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children who are in a state of legal limbo as the federal government determines the fate of the DACA program.