Sentences with phrase «of immigrants facing deportations»

A federal judge in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportation of more than 100 Iraqi nationals - predominantly Chaldean Christians - detained in what appeared to be a bid by US officials to clear a back - log of immigrants facing deportations.

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Congress» failure to protect the data of vulnerable users has created real world fears for immigrant rights activists working tirelessly to protect undocumented families facing a wave of deportation under President Trump.
The continuing persecution of Christians in Indonesia provided the US judges grounds for staying deportation orders, as it is considered unconstitutional to deport immigrants to countries where they are likely to face persecution or torture.
De Blasio said the city won't fund lawyers for immigrants facing deportation if they've been convicted of certain crimes — the same 170 on which the city cooperates with ICE detainers that start the process of deportation.
«This is why it is so important, especially now, to ensure funding for programs like the Vera Institute of Justice's New York Immigrant Family Unity Project so that immigrants facing deportation have a fair day in court.
«Senator Alcantara has delivered progressive results for her constituents, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and securing $ 10m in funding for legal defense for immigrants facing deportation,» she said.
The NYC Council moved to force de Blasio to offer city - funded lawyers to immigrants facing deportation even if they're convicted of serious crimes, as it voted to pass a new $ 85.2 billion budget yesterday.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's protest was designed to draw attention to the plight of the young immigrants facing deportation known as Dreamers.
The ad is funded by the group New Yorkers United Together, a nonprofit that says in the ad that it will provide legal aid to immigrants facing threats of deportation from the federal government.
A program offering free lawyers to immigrants facing deportation has stopped taking clients due to a clash between de Blasio and the NYC Council over whether city cash can aid people convicted of serious crimes.
After months of squabbling over how to pay for immigration - related legal services for undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes and facing deportation, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's office and the City Council came to a compromise.
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.
A central message of the May Day marchers was to end the use of private prisons by immigration agents to house undocumented immigrants awaiting a hearing or facing deportation.
The speaker and the mayor have also sparred over the budget, with the speaker appearing to blindside the mayor with a last - minute maneuver this week meant to insure that immigrants facing deportation, even those convicted of serious crimes, get access to city - funded lawyers.
But it represented a bitter defeat for many liberal Democrats who sought to use the party's leverage on the budget to resolve the plight of immigrant «Dreamers» who face deportation after being brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Congress is careening toward the first shutdown in more than four years, with Republicans and Democrats at a seemingly intractable impasse over government funding and the fates of young immigrants facing deportation.
At 9 a.m., immigrant communities, elected officials, and community supporters and allies will gather to stand in support of Riaz Talukder, a Bangladeshi immigrant who was brought to this country as a minor and has lived and worked here for 36 years, and now faces deportation, 26 Federal Plaza, Federal Building steps, Lafayette Street side, Manhattan.
Long Island immigrants facing the threat of deportation soon will have a new resource to aid their defense, as Hofstra University's law school is opening a clinic to help some make their cases before immigration authorities and to craft proposals that could influence the policy debate.
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.
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted language into the city budget today requiring that the $ 26 million plan to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those convicted of serious crimes — after she and Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to reach an agreement on the matter before the «budget handshake» last Friday at City Hall.
Some of Tenney's opponents said they came away surprised at the color they sometimes flashed — particularly when she spoke in support of the so - called dreamers — young immigrants who face deportation if DACA is rolled back, as the president has proposed — and her work with refugees.
New York state will now offer legal counsel to immigrants facing deportation as part of a $ 11.5 million expansion to the Liberty Defense Project.
New York state is offering legal counsel to immigrants facing deportation as part of a $ 11.5 million expansion to the Liberty Defense Project.
Leiberman joined public defenders, immigrant advocates and Councilmembers at City Hall on May 11 to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to drop a proposal in his Executive Budget that would restrict access to legal counsel for immigrants facing deportation who have been convicted of certain crimes.
The IDC also announced $ 250,000 in funding for the Vera Institute of Justice's New York Immigrant Family Unity Project to provide public defenders to those facing deportation and called for $ 4 million funding to meet the remaining statewide need.
I'm proud that as a member of the IDC, I worked to secure funds to ensure that immigrants in this state facing deportation have legal representation.
After months of squabbling over how to pay for immigration - related legal services for undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes and facing deportation, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office and the City Council came to a compromise on Monday.
Even qualifying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which gives young immigrants relief from deportation and the opportunity to work legally — they still face an uphill battle, said Roberto Gonzales, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
«Dreamer» Shares Her Drive with Other Immigrant Students Arizona Daily Star, 8/29/15 «Even qualifying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which gives young immigrants relief from deportation and the opportunity to work legally — they still face an uphill battle, said Roberto Gonzales, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»
A small group of members has been meeting to discuss the School to Deportation Pipeline, how immigrant and undocumented youth in schools can face immigration consequences such as detention and deportation when law enforcement are allowed in and around schools or involved in school discipline relatDeportation Pipeline, how immigrant and undocumented youth in schools can face immigration consequences such as detention and deportation when law enforcement are allowed in and around schools or involved in school discipline relatdeportation when law enforcement are allowed in and around schools or involved in school discipline related matters.
We represent tenants who are wrongly evicted, victims of domestic violence and child abuse and immigrant children facing deportation.
The Department of Justice is also reviewing a related «help desk» program that offers legal help to immigrants who are not detained but facing deportation in certain cities.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Monday she plans to award grants to defense lawyers and nonprofit organizations to represent any of the District's estimated 25,000 illegal immigrants who are faced with deportation.
In the last several months, we heard a lot of rhetoric from Trump that has created a frighteningly more dangerous America for people of color — one where unlawful stop - and - frisk policies (which have been found unconstitutional) are enforced, where immigrants are at risk of facing immediate deportation, where Muslims may be banned from entering the country, and where discrimination against LGBTQ communities and disabled people is deemed acceptable.
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