Sentences with phrase «on unauthorized immigrants»
Despite the president's and attorney - general's assurances, Trump's administration has repeatedly cracked down on unauthorized immigrants, as well as the jurisdictions that protect them.
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Democrats will face their toughest odds on codifying DACA, the Obama - era immigration program that shields from deportation more than 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who entered the US as minors.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.
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.
The irony is that the burden of this compromise does not fall on either immigration restrictionists or unauthorized immigrants.
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.
By signing a pair of executive orders, President Trump began a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration, ordering the immediate construction of a border wall with Mexico and aggressive efforts to find and deport unauthorized immigrants.
The New York Times reported that council member Jacob Monty and his colleagues had taken Trump at his word when, while meeting with the new council, the candidate «appeared humble,» «acknowledged the difficulty of deporting 11 million unauthorized immigrants,» and «suggested that he was working on a new policy that included a path to legalization.»
Trump's only loss on that front, his first Labor Department nominee Andrew Puzder, dropped out after acknowledging that he'd hired an unauthorized immigrant as a housekeeper.