Sentences with phrase «undocumented immigrant communities»

On the fifth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, the New York Immigration Coalition was in Manhattan as part of a National Day of Action, demanding an end to discriminatory attacks on undocumented immigrant communities.

Astorino said that he is working on an Executive Order that will assuage the anxiety of many in the undocumented immigrant community that they can not report crimes or seek medical assistance for fear that they will be deported.

The case had potentially larger implications for New York City's undocumented immigrant community.

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This concerns local police who say they need the cooperation of all people in the community, including lawful and undocumented immigrants, in reporting crime and aiding criminal prosecutions.

The report was produced by Bloomberg's Justin Fox, a famed American financial journalist from the 2016 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2016, to counter White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's comments that most undocumented immigrants are not easily able to assimilate into the United States, into its «modern society.»

as an immigrant of color who has large numbers of undocumented economic refugees in her district she will be helpful to communities of color and immigrant, refugee communities esp.

At 5 p.m., the MinKwon Center for Community Action, DRUM, NYIC and Columbia County New Sanctuary Movement host action to demand that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are not dismantles and to «stop the decriminalization of all undocumented immigrants,» outside Trump Tower, 52nd and 5th avenues, Manhattan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an op / ed posted to Medium on Wednesday urged fellow Democrats in Washington to exert some leverage and negotiate on behalf of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, a community known as dreamers.

On Thursday, Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) as well as members of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition dropped off signatures urging the passage of the Dream Act, which opens tuition assistance programs to undocumented immigrants.

Also in his January executive order, President Trump called for the expansion of a program that authorizes local authorities to serve as immigration enforcement officers to arrest undocumented immigrants who threaten the community.

Any New Yorker can have it, not just undocumented or immigrant communities.»

Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie shot down a push by state Senate Republicans to make it illegal for localities like New York City to protect undocumented immigrants from the feds by cutting virtually all state aid from communities that don't cooperate with immigration officials.

State lawmakers and advocates for immigrant communities on Wednesday rallied at the Capitol to push for a well - known and historically controversial proposal: Giving undocumented New Yorkers driver's licenses.

(«The overwhelming sentiment in my district is that we should not use taxpayer resources to fund higher education for undocumented immigrants at a time when our state's universities and community colleges are already woefully underfunded,» O'Brien explained in a statement after the vote.)

After police expressed frustration at their inability of garner cooperation from the local Latino community, many of whom were undocumented immigrants, a coalition of church and nonprofit groups came up with the idea of local identification cards.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The Dream Act would provide TAP funds to allow the children of undocumented immigrants to attend college — a sought - after provision for those lawmakers who represent Latino communities.

Members of the Saratoga Springs faith community are seeking to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants.

***** Since Congress has stalled in addressing immigration reform, states are left to deal on their own with the undocumented immigrants in their communities.

The links between undocumented status and present and future outcomes are irrefutably and overwhelmingly negative for immigrant families and the community at large.

Washington D.C. native Rachel Freeman's desire to learn more about community college, particularly access initiatives for immigrants and undocumented youth, brought her to Appian Way.

When I was in the classroom, I taught in an immigrant community with many undocumented students, and I developed a passion for working with them and a desire for helping to enact change on their behalf.

WHEREAS the president's harmful campaign promises included building a wall and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, creating a registry for Muslims living in the U.S. and implementing stop and frisk policies that have targeted the African American community and will accelerate the school to prison pipeline.

Although STRIVE and DPS have both received backlash for several undocumented TFA teachers they have hired, they defend their decision by showing how these teachers are positive forces in the school community, especially as role models for students and their families who may also be immigrants or undocumented (Caldwell, 2014).

Between 2012 and 2016 Nisenbaum painted portraits of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America whilst teaching English at an immigrant community space in New York, using the process of portraiture to get to know her students.

For example, when the artist began living with five undocumented immigrants in Corona, Queens, she became deeply concerned with the obstacles facing New York's immigrant communities.

The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.

Each of the four MLC clinics provide free legal services to the most vulnerable populations — including people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, undocumented immigrants and refugees, children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and people involved with the criminal justice system.

Local law enforcement agencies are discovering that 287 (g) agreements that target undocumented immigrants are expensive, expose departments to liability, and damage community trust.