Sentences with phrase «on legal immigration»

Do we need to focus as much on legal immigration?

WASHINGTON — The approval by the Congress last month of the most comprehensive revision of U.S. policy on legal immigration in decades has left educators unsure about the bill's impact on schools, with some experts warning that certain districts could see a new mix of immigrant students they are ill - prepared to handle.

He plans additional actions to cut back on legal immigration, including barring Syrian refugees from entering the U.S.

The potential impact of a plan proposed by Trump on legal immigration has sparked fierce Democratic opposition and appears it may sink chances for a bipartisan deal in Congress.

Trump's immigration policies aren't just about reducing illegal immigration, they come with serious reductions on legal immigration and a rejection of people from «shithole» countries.

This focus on legal immigration is likely a purposeful counterweight to the anti-illegal immigration rhetoric that marked much of the convention.

Not exact matches

U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his move to strip Haitians, Salvadorans and others of their temporary legal status have had a broad effect on Canada's refugee system, Reuters interviews with social service providers, government officials and a review of Canadian immigration data show.

While President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to reduce illegal immigration, these measures are affecting the legal ways people come to the country.

«These people paid a terrible price and demonstrate why we need a secure border and legal immigration reform so we can control who enters our country,» Patrick said in a statement on Facebook.

The «Squawk on the Street» crew discuss the ongoing legal battles over President Trump's immigration ban.

The specific legal grounds for the Texas coalition's challenge to the remaining DACA program are that it violates the Constitution's direction for the president to execute the nation's laws, that it was adopted without allowing the public an advance chance to comment on it, and that it exceeds presidential power under federal immigration laws and is thus illegal.

The firm has become one of the leading immigration law firms in Panama and the practice includes relocation related services such as legal assistance on the purchase and sale of real estate, setting up foundations and corporations for asset protection and estate planning.

Apple and Microsoft pledged on Tuesday to protect workers who face the risk of legal trouble and perhaps deportation after President Donald Trump terminated a major immigration program that had broad support among the business community.

Uber said today it would create $ 3 million defense fund to help cover legal, immigration and translation costs for drivers affected by the immigration ban, with Kalanick further clarifying his stance on the ban and calling it «wrong and unjust.»

(Scaperlanda seems to want the federal government to curb immigration by enforcing current legal limits on it.)

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

A couple of years ago, National Review embarked on a campaign to persuade Americans that the current level of immigration to this country, legal and illegal, is dangerously out of control.

The right - to - rent scheme places a legal requirement on landlords and their agents to carry out immigration checks on all adults who will occupy a property before they enter into a tenancy agreement.

He keeps doubling down on policies that piss a lot of Americans off... like immigration (legal and illegal).

Alicandro is challenging two - term Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a staunch critic of President Donald Trump, filing legal challenges to his administration's regulatory changes on the environment and immigration.

Mark - Viverito, an outspoken progressive, pushed as speaker for more stringent limits on police cooperation with immigration officials about undocumented immigrants in their custody and developed a free legal defense fund for immigrants facing possible deportation.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a state hotline Sunday to assist immigrants affected by President Trump's executive order on immigration, vowing legal assistance to anyone facing detainment.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and freshman Assemblywoman Monica Wallace also voted against the bill, which among other things, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from detaining individuals based on immigration status and would provide for legal representation for people without documentation who otherwise couldn't afford it.

«Major League Baseball's 2011 All - Star Game will be hosted in Arizona, where a harsh new immigration law requires police to detain anyone they «suspect» might be an undocumented immigrant unless they can prove their legal status on the spot.»

The White House is examining several options — including issuing a new executive order or continuing its legal battle — for how to proceed on its immigration policy after a setback dealt by the courts last week, top White House adviser Stephen Miller said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the president is trying to force Democrats to support his hard - line approach, which includes shrinking legal immigration, instead of working on a compromise.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

Except to the extent that «national security interests», immigration policy, or the enforceability of tax laws are involved, a major theme of U.S. law is that the legal standing of a person should not depend on who that person is.

New York City Councilmember Robert Jackson will offer free high quality and confidential legal immigration services to individuals and families on the path to U.S. citizenship at his Washington Heights District Office, located at 751 West 183rd Street, at the corner of Ft. Washington Avenue.

An upper immigration tribunal ruling said his legal case «succeeds on all grounds».

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

Mayor Steve Noble, who backed the law, said that city would also rely on guidance from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who issued a legal opinion last year illustrating how municipalities could lawfully limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

The forum will provide hands - on legal advice and assistance to Muslim community members concerned about their immigration rights.

Wan, whose father was a Taiwanese immigrant, supported Trump's border wall and a broader crackdown on both illegal and legal immigration to the United States.

On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a cease and desist letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in which he threatened to take legal action against the agency if it does not stop its «reckless and unconstitutional practices» in immigrant communities.

The ActionNYC model is intended to provide immigrant families with trusted legal resources and reduce reliance on fraudulent and predatory providers of immigration law.

Cuomo knocked Trump on the immigration issue as Republicans introduce a bill aimed at slashing legal levels of immigrants coming to the U.S.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton also spoke at the conference, and she pledged that if elected, she would advance President Barack Obama's policies on immigration, particularly those impacting childhood arrivals and parents of citizens and legal residents, and go a step further by closing private immigration detention centers.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office will join the American Civil Liberties Union's legal challenge to the executive order issued by President Donald Trump placing a moratorium on immigration and refugees.

Also at noon, NYC Councilman Carlos Menchaca, advocates and New Yorkers who would qualify for immigration relief call on the Supreme Court to remove a legal barrier to President Obama's administrative relief programs after a year of legal delays, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 6:30 p.m., Tech: New York City Leadership Council launches with an update on the recent Trump immigration ban's legal challenges, The Jane, Hotel Ballroom, 113 Jane St., Manhattan.

At 11:30 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey joins DACA recipients, immigration advocates and legal experts for a roundtable discussion on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, Preston Hall's Tudor Room, 78 N. Broadway, White Plains.

The speaker, for her part, has maintained that NYIFUP should remain the same — and attached terms to the program today stating, «Eligibility for legal representation provided through funds in unit of appropriation 107 for unrepresented, detained individuals in removal proceedings occurring in immigration court in New York City shall be based solely on income.»

The agency's Healthy Relationship Training Academy sponsors workshops on dating violence for adolescents and young adults, Palacio said, while the city's Family Justice Centers offer free and confidential legal and social services victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sex trafficking, regardless of immigration status.

Cuomo sent a sternly worded letter on Wednesday to ICE Deputy Director Thomas Homan threatening legal action if the agency doesn't «cease and desist» immigration enforcement tactics that the governor called «irresponsible, and in many cases, illegal.»

The Trump administration signaled on Sunday the president would continue with legal protections for so - called dreamers in the United States that allow them to work here in exchange for building a wall on the Mexican border and tightening immigration policies, such as visa applications for family members.

«Non-clinical information is shared on occasion between health agencies and the Home Office to locate individuals suspected of committing immigration offences - this data is strictly controlled and only shared if there is a legal basis to do so.

The measure also would prohibit county resources from being used to create a federal registry based on immigration status and states that the county won't use citizenship or immigration status when providing services or benefits, except when those services or benefits are contingent on citizenship or legal immigration status.

The children, who largely fled their home countries due to violence and lack of economic opportunity, had to first face immigration courts before attaining legal residency — a complicated, bureaucratic tangle of legal proceedings children, many of whom could not speak fluent English, could not easily navigate on their own.