Sentences with phrase «unauthorized immigrants who»

In September 2017, President Donald Trump put 20,000 teachers at risk of deportation1 when he terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — the Obama - era initiative that grants temporary protection to unauthorized immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

Five years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order that allowed young, unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the country as children to work, go to school, and get a driver's license without fear of deportation.

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.

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In March, the Trump administration started releasing reports publicly naming counties that refused to honor federal requests to detain people who were suspected of being unauthorized immigrants.

President Donald Trump and lawmakers have been at loggerheads for months over the fate of young unauthorized immigrants known as «Dreamers,» who are temporarily protected from deportation under the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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.

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.

It is a tough immigration bill with a soft side that protects those who hire unauthorized immigrants «for the purpose of obtaining labor or other work to be performed exclusively or primarily at a single - family residence.»

In my opinion, a better use of time and effort would have been the regulation of tax preparers who in most immigrant communities engage in the unauthorized practice of law.