Even if there were a constitutional amendment saying that English is the official language, we we still have to await myriad SCOTUS interpretations of that clause, to determine whether
that prohibited immigration agents from using a language other than English when addressing a customer.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
The NYC Council's Committee on
Immigration voted unanimously to pass a bill prohibiting local law enforcement from entering partnerships with agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce immigr
Immigration voted unanimously to pass a bill
prohibiting local law enforcement from entering partnerships with
agents from US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce immigr
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce
immigrationimmigration laws.
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.