Sentences with phrase «undocumented people in»

«I haven't seen undocumented people in Alabama have an issue getting auto insurance,» she said.
The artist's new work tackles Donny Trump's favorite issue: immigration and the realities of life for undocumented people in the U.S. — from the conditions of their arrival to their failed and fulfilled expectations of «The American Dream.»
When it comes to the border itself, the Wall doesn't demarcate the international boundary so much as it defines an invisible barrier roughly 100 miles inland, trapping many thousands of undocumented people in what can be seen as the world's longest prison.
«Right now, undocumented people in this country are under attack in so many ways,» says Vargas, who regularly appears on Fox News, the O'Reilly Factor, and other national programs.
«Today we are deeply disappointed, but we renew our commitment to fighting for respect and dignity for all 11 million undocumented people in this country,» Valdés said.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said the half - million undocumented people in the Big Apple would be reluctant to talk to a police officer if they thought they could be deported.
ICE agents have arrested undocumented people in hospitals, while dropping kids off at school and even in a courthouse while seeking a protective order against an alleged abuser.

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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.
But immigration reform won't come easy, and that's why Laurene Powell Jobs today launched TheDreamIsNow.org, an online petition supporting the Dream Act, a bill that would grant a path to citizenship to undocumented young people who enroll in college or join the military.
«Expanding the focus of law enforcement beyond people who are real threats would make all Americans less safe by diverting resources, while millions of undocumented folks who don't pose a threat will live in fear of deportation.»
Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»
Co-founder and Executive Director of United We Dream, Cristina Jimenez explains, «Our movement is led by undocumented immigrants and people of color, and under Trump we've seen our members targeted in phishing attacks online and chased by white supremacists out in the streets.»
The idea was to make it easy for people who lost their documents in the storm to get work — but in effect, the law also allowed companies to hire undocumented workers who didn't have papers at all.
«It preys on principally undocumented Latino people in the United States and poor around the world.
Most sanctuary churches aren't looking to attract attention to the people who might be living in their walls, so no one knows exactly how many undocumented people are living in sanctuary churches.
In Denver, Arnie Carter assisted the First Unitarian Church in providing asylum for two undocumented immigrants, and he says local police have been surprisingly supportive, especially after one of the people taking sanctuary in the church started receiving threats onlinIn Denver, Arnie Carter assisted the First Unitarian Church in providing asylum for two undocumented immigrants, and he says local police have been surprisingly supportive, especially after one of the people taking sanctuary in the church started receiving threats onlinin providing asylum for two undocumented immigrants, and he says local police have been surprisingly supportive, especially after one of the people taking sanctuary in the church started receiving threats onlinin the church started receiving threats online.
The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.
Comprehensive reform would provide documentation for most of the 11 million undocumented people currently in the U.S.. From an economic standpoint, this seems to make sense, given employment standing at 95 percent.
On the Bon Appétit podcast in October, Andrés spoke about how restaurants can get involved in politics: «This is about over 11 million undocumented people, many of whom have spent many years helping America be prosperous.
What I am prepared to do is to go to Albany to fight for the DREAM Act, fight for licenses for the undocumented, fight for the people in my district and the state of New York.»
Eliot Spitzer proposed the controversial plan that would provide driver's licenses to undocumented people living in New York.
The fates of hundreds of thousands of undocumented people living in the United States may come down to haggling over the definition of the now - famous phrase «build that wall.»
«To Dreamer and immigrants like me, these fabrications are offensive,» Make the Road Action member Antonio Alarcon said in a statement, adding that the governor «has no idea what it's like to live as an undocumented person
Mark - Viverito, stressing Clinton's long - established record in the Latino community, said the former Secretary of State is the better candidate to meet the needs of Latinos and millions of undocumented people across the country.
New York's existing «sanctuary city» statutes forbids the NYPD and Department of Corrections from turning undocumented individuals in its custody over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless those persons have been found guilty of one of 170 violent felonies — including murder, rape, terrorism, assaulting a cop and physically or sexually abusing a child.
In the US more than a million people took part in protests up and down the country, including undocumented migrants who risked arrest and deportatioIn the US more than a million people took part in protests up and down the country, including undocumented migrants who risked arrest and deportatioin protests up and down the country, including undocumented migrants who risked arrest and deportation.
Schneiderman has sued Trump over his executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, his attempts to repeal former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youth brought to the United States in their early childhood, among other issues.
Public Advocate Letitia James spent her morning advocating for one person in particular in court today — a 16 - year - old undocumented immigrant who fled gang violence in Honduras.
And when I'm speaking to people in low - income communities of color, there are a number of issues that keep popping up: protecting undocumented people, the subways, and a whole host of things.
«Access to drivers licenses for undocumented workers and raising the welfare grant above the poverty line are policies that all working people should support because most of us will need public support at some point in our lives,» said Hawkins.
Steve Choi, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, a prominent immigrant advocacy group that has hosted a number of actions in response to Trump's immigration policies such as the executive orders targeting people from Muslim - majority countries, said that as a state legislator, Schneiderman was an early supporter of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
«I'll never forget watching videos of young undocumented people coming out as undocumented in downtown...
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
With a speech in Arizona following a surprise trip to Mexico, Donald Trump tried to remake his image on the divisive issue of immigration, shelving his plan to deport 11 million undocumented people and arguing that a Trump administration and Mexico would secure the border together.
«I don't believe tax dollars should go to people who are undocumented in the country when we have our legal taxpaying citizens who it should be afforded to.»
Cesar Vargas, a Mexican immigrant who became the first undocumented person to practice law in New York, noted that Trump commented after the election that he wanted to «show great heart» to the DACA recipients, also referred to as «DREAMers» and challenged the president to make good on his promise.
Hawkins and the Green Party would protect and strengthen the rights of undocumented people, including passage of the Dream Act to increase educational opportunities for undocumented youth, drivers licenses for the undocumented, and prohibiting state employees from inquiring about a person's immigration status in the course of performing their duties.
That agenda has included temporarily - blocked executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries and withholding funding to so - called «sanctuary cities» for undocumented immigrants, a proposal to build a wall along the Mexican border, expanding immigration detention and apprehension of wanted foreign nationals in and outside civil and criminal courtrooms.
President Barack Obama praised a federal memo released Friday that is set to give undocumented young people in Queens hope for a normal life, but drew cautious optimism from the borough and criticism from the county's only Republican congressman.
The program has been the focus of an ongoing lawsuit, as two Republican Assembly members from Staten Island are contesting the city's plan to destroy documents obtained from people who apply for the program in an effort to protect undocumented immigrants.
De Blasio also took the opportunity to encourage people to sign up for IDNYC, a municipal ID program that is available to all city residents including undocumented immigrants, and told the crowd to learn more about Get Covered NYC, an effort to enroll more New Yorkers in Obamacare.
The volunteers were part of the New Sanctuary Coalition's accompaniment program, which trains people to accompany undocumented immigrants on check - ins with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The local actions — which generally declare local authorities will not question people solely on the grounds of suspected undocumented status — do not preclude federal immigration officials from doing their jobs in sanctuary communities.
His move was unconnected to the radicalism in Arizona, which just passed a law making criminals of every undocumented person within its borders, and greatly empowering the police to arrest people they suspect are here illegally.
The day DACA was rescinded, I led my department in a rally urging our congressperson to push for legislation that would provide a permanent solution for undocumented people.
It's only in the last 40 years or so that conservation has really become a professional discipline where people are scrupulous about keeping track of all of the restorations there being done to objects of art, whereas art has been restored basically for the entire period of time that art has been made, and so we find so many undocumented, unexpected materials on an object of art.
We got lots of interesting email in response to my rebuttal to the wildly exaggerated and completely undocumented article posted by one «Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist» that tells people not to drink green smoothies and says they can «devastate» your health.
College Leaders Urge Trump, Others to Protect Undocumented Students The Boston Globe, 11/22/16)» «People are taking [Trump] at his word and so preparing for the worst,» said Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education who specializes in the education of immigrants and Latino students.»
Yes, through my West Coast Undocumented Young Adults Research Project, I collected in - depth life histories of more than 300 undocumented young people in California andUndocumented Young Adults Research Project, I collected in - depth life histories of more than 300 undocumented young people in California andundocumented young people in California and Washington.
The decision will expand adult education seats in the state to an additional 16,000 of those eligible for DACA — undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children.
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