Sentences with phrase «of unauthorized immigrants»

First, lawmakers went after in - state tuition for children of unauthorized immigrants.

Throughout the 2016 election, Trump pledged to move quickly to deport the millions of unauthorized immigrants who live in the US.

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.

On immigration, one could hardly imagine anything farther removed from Kempism than Trump's promises to build a wall and mass deport our current population of unauthorized immigrants.

One possible path for conservatives would be to try to become more welcoming and inclusive, in part by embracing comprehensive immigration reform — the Washington political class euphemism for upfront legalization of unauthorized immigrants, and increased future low - skill immigration.

More than half of all unauthorized immigrants lived in California (2.9 million), Texas (1.6 million), Florida (1.0 million), and New York (705 thousand).

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Under international pressure, the government in Santo Domingo passed legislation suspending deportations for 18 months, during which time children of unauthorized immigrant parents could seek to recover their lost citizenship status — if they could meet stringent standards proving they were born in the Dominican Republic.

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.

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

An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by Country and Region of Birth (Migration Policy)

Estimates of unauthorized immigrants are included, but temporary workers abroad for less than a year and military personnel are not.

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.

They favor non-enforcement of immigration law and legalization of unauthorized immigrants — in that order.