Sentences with phrase «undocumented immigrant children»

But after yesterday's move by the Trump Administration to continue its open war on the lives and futures of undocumented immigrant children, neutrality is no longer possible.

«We don't know where our futures are going,» as Washington debates whether to continue program for undocumented immigrant children

What reformers need to do is give attention to a much more - important matter: Building brighter futures for the 57,000 undocumented immigrant children from Central America crossing the Mexican border into America.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito called on New York City to follow Syracuse's footsteps and offer shelter to some of the unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant children flooding into the country as they flee violence in Central America.

We spoke to Assistant Professor Roberto Gonzales — an expert in undocumented immigrant children and young adults — who shared his thoughts on the crisis, the conversations America should be having, and the significant role education can play in the lives of these children.

Hopefully they will do better than they did two years ago when Todd Rokita, who chairs a key subcommittee of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, engaged in scaremongering against undocumented immigrant children coming from Central America.

This includes crafting administrative rules that can require districts and other school operators to cooperate with ICE in the latter's efforts to deport undocumented immigrant children and their parents, as well as withhold funds to districts such as Chicago Public Schools which are refusing to cooperate with deportation attempts.

This includes Chiefs for Change, which issued a public call today asking for retain protections for undocumented immigrant children, as well as former U.S. Secretary of Education John King (who called out the administration in a speech last week to a group of school leaders.

As Riker's Island became empty of criminals, we could repurpose it as a sanctuary for homeless families or undocumented immigrant children.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito declared today that an initiative launched last year to guarantee legal representation to all of the undocumented immigrant children inundating the city has been a success — and has already obtained asylum for more than a dozen youth lacking proper paperwork.

Besides the documented evidence that the presence of law enforces leads to overuse of harsh school discipline and exacerbates the school - to - prison pipeline, they can also end up being used by ICE as tools to identify and deport undocumented immigrant children and their families.