Sentences with phrase «of immigration agents»

And school boards adopted resolutions limiting the ability of immigration agents to enter campuses and the collection of information about immigration status.

Not exact matches

Although President Trump has pledged to increase the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, there is no indication that his administration will bring back the disruptive work - site raids that were more common under President George W. Bush.

Meanwhile, immigration agents conducted audits and inspections of more than 100 7 - Eleven franchises across the country earlier this year and ICE's acting director has vowed to quadruple worksite enforcement in 2018.

Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.

These two agents said they could easily block the approval of the requisite visa and immigration documentation for her to study at a U.S. college — unless Mr. Lo choose to cooperate.

The tractor - trailer was in the main inspection lane at the checkpoint on IH - 35, north of Laredo, when agents questioned the driver and passenger on their immigration status.

The sheriff relied on his interpretation of a San Francisco ordinance barring cooperation with immigration officers unless an inmate in local custody has a serious criminal record or the agents have a warrant.

In one win for immigrant advocates, negotiators rejected Trump's plans to hire hundreds of new Border Patrol and immigration enforcement agents.

Some Latin American politicians, seeing Northern Europeans and North Americans as being agents of modernization in the area, welcomed Protestant immigration and investment.

The new administration has made lots of promises to tighten our borders and take a harsher stance on immigration — like deporting millions of undocumented workers, building a wall along the southern border, terminating executive amnesty and tripling the number of immigration enforcement agents.

The «immigration fugitives» are now on «order of supervision,» which means the six men and two women — who said they fled persecution for their faith in Indonesia — must check in with federal agents regularly but won't be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcementimmigration fugitives» are now on «order of supervision,» which means the six men and two women — who said they fled persecution for their faith in Indonesia — must check in with federal agents regularly but won't be deported by Immigration and Customs EnforcementImmigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

* If you choose option 2 German Industry and Commerce (GIC), as the representative office of ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA, acts as an agent to handle the application on behalf of the applicant, i.e. apply, trace and collect the visa from the Hong Kong Immigration Department.

That evening Martina and her agent, Fred Barman, went to the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in lower Manhattan.

Queens Rep. Grace Meng, a DNC vice chair, said she will «certainly be seeking answers» after an ICE agent allegedly showed up at a Maspeth elementary school seeking a fourth grader, and blasted the «lack of consistency and standards» in the execution of immigration policies.

Public statements issued in response to recent immigration legislation by groups including the British Medical Association, Royal College of General Practitioners, University and College Union, Residential Landlords Association and the UK Association of Letting Agents have each expressed a similar unease: that doctors / lecturers / landlords are not and should not be made into immigration officers.

For the purposes of this section, any officer or employee or agent of the responsible department authorised in that behalf by the chief executive of that department may, at the request of the Electoral Commission, supply to the Electoral Commission any immigration information held by that department.

The head of the New York City Council on Thursday outlined a legislative plan to resist President Donald Trump by blocking his immigration agents locally and rallying sympathetic municipalities to oppose him nationally.

House Democrats are looking for answers after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at a Queens courthouse to arrest a woman believed to be a victim of human trafficking last month.

A single New York county outside of Albany — Rensselaer — participates in a program that deputizes local authorities as immigration agents — and now advocates are calling on Cuomo to prohibit the initiative statewide.

Immigration advocates took to the streets of New York City Saturday to express their support for the Big Apple's status as a sanctuary city — as five people were detained by federal agents on Staten Island.

A Manhattan Federal Court judge has ordered the release of prominent immigrant activist Ravi Ragbir, who had been detained by immigration agents...

Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Joe Crowley say federal immigration agents appear to be «targeting» a number of «immigrant rights leaders across the United States,» and demanded a sit - down with agency brass about «the rash of enforcement actions.»

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.

Immigration activists in Syracuse have been filming federal border patrol agents questioning the citizenship status of travelers at the Regional Transportation Center.

So insists a collective of elected officials, including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, City Council Immigration Committee Chair Carlos Menchaca, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and numerous other Councilmembers, who issued a letter to New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, urging her to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from New York State courts.

As of press time, two Republicans lawmakers, David Gelfarb, of Rye Brook, and Jim Maisano, of New Rochelle, support the legislation, which would prohibit law enforcement officials from honoring requests made by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents, which do not give rise to reasonable grounds for detaining individuals.

U.S. federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least four states this week in what officials on Friday called routine enforcement actions.

Mr. Schneiderman said in a press release issued Wednesday that his office has received «a number of reports» about fake agents claiming to be with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and demanding money from immigrants.

Among other provisions, the county measure calls for county employees to not stop, question, interrogate or arrest individuals «solely for the purpose of enforcing immigration law»; to not perform the functions of a federal immigration officer; to honor detainer requests from federal agents only in specific limited situations; and to deny federal agents access to inmates in county custody.

The former surrogate for Hillary Clinton will propose new laws barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from public schools, social service offices and personnel areas of city buildings, except when the federal authorities have a warrant.

The Trump administration is planning an increase in federal immigration jails across the country for the thousands of additional undocumented immigrants its agents are arresting.

A Brooklyn Democrat's new bill would obligate Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation agents to wear chest - mounted recording devices while on the job — and would pay for the technology out of the agency's weapons budget.

In March, the United States Department of Justice threatened to cut as much as $ 4.1 billion in federal funding to sanctuary cities that don't comply with federal immigration enforcement agents.

Among other provisions, the measure calls for county employees to not stop, question, interrogate or arrest individuals «solely for the purpose of enforcing immigration law»; to not perform the functions of a federal immigration officer; to honor detainer requests from federal agents only in specific limited situations; and to deny federal agents access to inmates in county custody.

U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services officials said the purpose of the visit was to check facts about the enrollment of the publicly unidentified student at PS 58, and staffers in the building confirmed to agents that the student did not attend the school.

«We will not allow officers of the Department of Probation, the NYPD, and the Department of Correction to act as ICE agents and enforce immigration law,» she added.

Trump may not be against legal immigration, but work visa programs like EB - 2 and EB - 3 are getting tougher and and tougher to attain, according to Yuan Shaozhong of QWOS, a Shanghai - based immigration agent.

«Just yesterday during a community discussion on immigration at the Jamaica Muslim Center, I again criticized the lack of consistency and standards in which agents enforce immigration policies at our airports and borders, and how they randomly pop up at courts and hospitals.

Meng said that P.S. 58 officials «did the right thing» by repulsing the immigration agent from the premises, saying that schools should be a «safe and welcoming environment» for all students regardless of their immigration status or the status of their families.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's office revealed over social media that he will meet today with Gen. John Kelly, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, after a federal immigration agent visited a Queens elementary school late last week seeking to speak with a fourth - grader.

PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO, REPORTING BY PAUL SCHINDLER Even as congressional leaders scrambled Thursday to forge an agreement on the fate of roughly 800,000 Dreamers, federal agents in Manhattan from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a leading immigration rights advocate, Ravi Ragbir, as he did a routine check - in with governmentImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a leading immigration rights advocate, Ravi Ragbir, as he did a routine check - in with governmentimmigration rights advocate, Ravi Ragbir, as he did a routine check - in with government officials.

Surges of border patrol agents responding to unanticipated increases in immigration could not be set two years in advance, which strengthens the argument that border enforcement has driven the long - term changes in Mexican immigration patterns, he said.

The inventive indie darling, Papers, Please won the Innovation Award and the honor for Best Downloadable Game in recognition of developer Lucas Pope's compelling gameplay structured around protocols and moral challenges of working as an immigration agent under a dictatorial regime.

Require immigration agents and local law enforcement agencies to collaborate with school officials to mitigate the negative impact of impending immigration raids and small - scale enforcement activities on students.

This loophole has led Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell (D - Long Beach) to author Assembly Bill 699 which would prohibit school districts from collecting a student's immigration status in order to prevent immigration agents from looking at student files that could in some way lead them to the immigration status of students or their parents.

Several of the largest school systems in Southern California, including ones serving students in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Long Beach, Riverside and San Bernardino, have passed resolutions limiting cooperation with federal immigration agents.

But when her science project reveals a portal into another dimension, she learns that travelers are moving in and out of her woods in the most alarming way and government agents Regulus and Arizona are policing their immigration.

In particular, I really appreciate being able to take the speed boat directly from downtown San Pedro to Chetumal. It only takes 1  1/2 hours and is about $ 60 US roundtrip. The time spent in immigration and baggage checks is nominal, as compared to stopping at the border. When you arrive at the dock in Chetumal, there is a dedicated group of Mexican agents there and things move pretty quickly.

As one of the top immigration agents in Brisbane, John Corbett will help you get approved as quickly as possible.

By now, every frequent international traveler should have Global Entry which helps speed you through immigration via a kiosk instead of an agent.