Sentences with phrase «thousands of immigrants from»

A second bill sponsored by Crespo reduces the maximum sentence for misdemeanor offenses by one day from one year to 364 days, an apparent technicality that could potentially spare thousands of immigrants from deportation under federal law over certain lesser offenses.

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Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the streets in the US and abroad protesting Trump's executive order, dubbed a «Muslim ban» by prominent critics because the order specifically applies to immigrants from seven majority - Muslim countries.

Since 1990, foreign investors from China, Canada and the Middle East have invested more than $ 6.8 billion in American businesses, been awarded 29,000 U.S. Visas, and created thousands of American jobs through the EB - 5 Immigrant Investor Program.

The government has arrested thousands of immigrants in the country illegally and threatened to withhold funding from sanctuary jurisdictions, which limit cooperation between local and federal immigration authorities.

• Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday that there would be no deal to protects thousands of young immigrants brought to the country as children and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

Erected in 1906, it commemorates the thousand lives lost, most of them women and children from German immigrant families on an early - summer outing, when the steamer General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River.

Though far from the Nordic countries, the little neighborhood north of downtown Seattle had drawn immigrants by the thousands over the years.

Several of those players spent their formative years in Les Ulis, an isolated project of mid-20th Century tower blocks, without its own train station, where thousands of immigrant families from Africa and Arabia arrived in the»50s,»60s and»70s.

For over 6000 years, it's been the meeting place for everyone from the earliest First Nations people, through to the fur traders, hunters, settlers, and thousands of immigrants who've made their way to where the Red River and Assiniboine River meet.

Citing President Trump's «racially charged language,» a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that a lawsuit seeking to preserve a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation could continue.

The net migration figures - which we will get down to the tens of thousands by the end of this Parliament - show that the vast bulk of immigrants come from outside the European Union.

At 5 a.m., Make the Road New York, immigrant youth and families from New York and Long Island depart for Washington, DC, to joint thousands from across the country in calling for the passage of» «a clean Dream Act.»

Headlines suggesting 29 million might come here are overblown, but even a few tens of thousands more Romanian or Bulgarian immigrants could throw the government well off course from its ambition to reduce net immigration to under 100,000 by 2015.

Cuomo warned congressional Democrats to «exercise extreme caution» in negotiating a deal with Trump aimed at restoring an Obama - era program that has shielded thousands of immigrant students and young adults in the U.S. without documentation from deportation.

Along with Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, a fellow Staten Island Republican, he brought the city to court to prevent it from going forward with plans to delete the databanks of the IDNYC municipal identification program — believed to contain the personal information of thousands of undocumented immigrants.

A pair of Staten Island GOP lawmakers have lodged a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to prevent him from purging the records of his municipal identification program at the end of the year — records believed to contain the information of thousands of undocumented immigrants, and which advocates fear could wind up in the hands of President - elect Donald Trump.

Bharara said Pierre and an accomplice pocketed thousands of dollars from at least four unsuspecting immigrants and refused to give the cash back when they didn't deliver on their promises.

As the Trump administration announced Tuesday the rescinding of DACA, the Obama - era program that protected children of undocumented immigrants from being deported, thousands of recipients have been left unsure of their futures and legal teams have already began questioning the president's action.

Last year, she and her Staten Island GOP colleague Assemblyman Ronald Astorina sued the city to try to stop it from going forward with plans to purge the databanks of the IDNYC municipal identification program, databanks believed to contain the personal information of thousands of undocumented immigrants.

NIH is funding researchers to look at risk behavior in many communities: Hispanic immigrant men who live thousands of miles from their wives, teens who cruise the Internet for pornography, Thai and Vietnamese women who work in San Francisco brothels.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

Both films deliver the essential hope we all need right now when faced with everything from climate deniers dismissing record breaking hurricanes to the cruelty of an administration rejecting DACA and threatening to expel thousands of young, productive immigrants, among other daily horrors.

Environmental Charter Schools is deeply disappointed in this action, which places hundreds of thousands of immigrant students benefiting from our public education system in jeopardy.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees and immigrants flooded cities from Nairobi, Kenya to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Thousands of immigrants arrive annually from mainland China to cities and villages throughout Africa.