Sentences with phrase «who face deportation»

Under the rule of law, we owe due process to all, including those who face deportation.

Some of Tenney's opponents said they came away surprised at the color they sometimes flashed — particularly when she spoke in support of the so - called dreamers — young immigrants who face deportation if DACA is rolled back, as the president has proposed — and her work with refugees.

But it represented a bitter defeat for many liberal Democrats who sought to use the party's leverage on the budget to resolve the plight of immigrant «Dreamers» who face deportation after being brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Also at 1 p.m., a rally will be held in spport of Ravi Ragbir, who faces deportation, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan.

Gov. David Paterson has pardoned a Chinese immigrant who faced deportation for robberies he committed as a teenager.

Not exact matches

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.

Apple and Microsoft pledged on Tuesday to protect workers who face the risk of legal trouble and perhaps deportation after President Donald Trump terminated a major immigration program that had broad support among the business community.

The two women, who have lived in the United Kingdom for 14 years, have faced repeated deportation attempts and have been detained at the Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre since January 2018.

Foreign visitors who violate the law face deportation.

This despite the various civic problems that come from importing a class of workers who might face deportation if they undergo a spell of unemployment and who are barred from US citizenship.

In one such case, Noonan held for a Salvadoran immigrant facing deportation who testified that she had been repeatedly beaten, raped, and threatened by a Salvadoran Army sergeant because he believed she was a political subversive.

And that's to say nothing of Democratic demands for a deal to help hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who face possible deportation next year, as well as a host of other controversial policy issues.

By Sian Norris On Wednesday, SNP MP Hannah Bardell asked the prime minister to intervene on behalf of her constituent Lola Ilesanmi, who currently faces deportation to Nigeria where her three - year - old daughter is at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Mr Lammy said it was a «day of national shame» and called on Home Secretary Amber Rudd to apologise for the threat of deportation facing some people who arrived from the Commonwealth as children.

The Home Secretary, who faced questions from the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said there have been no wrongful Windrush deportations.

SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Jerry Brown has pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two who fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia four decades ago.

At 9 a.m., immigrant communities, elected officials, and community supporters and allies will gather to stand in support of Riaz Talukder, a Bangladeshi immigrant who was brought to this country as a minor and has lived and worked here for 36 years, and now faces deportation, 26 Federal Plaza, Federal Building steps, Lafayette Street side, Manhattan.

The legal fight against the immigration ban will return to Brooklyn Federal Court today when a team of lawyers who filed an emergency motion to stay the deportation of Iraqi refugees Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi over the weekend will again face off with Justice Department attorneys.

«We agree that the City of New York should help undocumented people who are facing deportation, and that's been a strong consensus,» de Blasio said, stressing that only a small portion of unauthorized migrants commit serious offenses.

A political row erupted after it emerged many of those who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean decades ago were facing deportation under new immigration rules.

Immigrants expressed fear that more than 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children would face deportation if DACA is cancelled.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House, 91 percent of children facing deportation proceedings without a lawyer are deported, compared to only 22 percent of children who have representation.

Before the program, NMCIR received «countless» calls from immigrants in detention centers who were facing deportation, Fernández said.

Leiberman joined public defenders, immigrant advocates and Councilmembers at City Hall on May 11 to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to drop a proposal in his Executive Budget that would restrict access to legal counsel for immigrants facing deportation who have been convicted of certain crimes.

The de Blasio administration has maintained New York as a «sanctuary city,» ignoring federal detainer requests to hand over illegal immigrants who committed crimes and are facing deportation, saying the NYPD will not operate as a deportation force.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing stiff resistance from City Council members and immigrant advocates who are opposed to how the mayor would like to set up a fund intended to protect the city's immigrants in deportation proceedings, with the deadline for a budget deal inching closer.

«We have a teacher who's under the DACA program, an amazing member of our community facing deportation next year, we have kids that are undocumented, that want to be Americans and who work so hard,» said Thomas Hasler, a high school teacher.

«We will not be fooled into thinking that, out of a total state budget of $ 163 billion, a $ 10 million program to provide legal services to members of our community who are facing deportation is sufficient in the age of Trump,» the group's leaders, Javier Valdes and Deborah Axt, stated.

«As a Latina who recently became a citizen, I know firsthand the challenges that many in this country face,» Ms. Praeli wrote, «including fear of deportation, and Hillary is committed to fighting against Republican attacks to tear families like mine apart.»

Ms Rudd sought to stress the distinction between the government's illegal immigration clampdown and treatment of legal British citizens in the Windrush generation, who came to the UK decades ago but who have have faced threats of deportation and loss of access to public services.

Students with expired visas who were enrolled in degree programs suddenly faced the prospect of indefinite detention and deportation.

But Womick and others say they've come around since backers agreed to limit it just to kids, like Chavez, who no longer face the threat of deportation.

Does this standard also apply to the foreign national who will have to face deportation?

We represent tenants who are wrongly evicted, victims of domestic violence and child abuse and immigrant children facing deportation.

The Department of Justice is also reviewing a related «help desk» program that offers legal help to immigrants who are not detained but facing deportation in certain cities.

McGowan said this new plan from the Harper government is particularly «cynical, sneaky and mean - spirited» because they have tried to dress it up as an act of kindness to the thousands of TFWs who face the prospect of deportation as soon as April 1.

Security Certificate hearings are held «ex parte», that is, without the person who is facing deportation, and «in camera», or secretly.

In addition to handling cases involving deportation, we also assist clients who are facing extradition for a crime committed in another country or a crime committed in Canada that affects individuals in a foreign country.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Monday she plans to award grants to defense lawyers and nonprofit organizations to represent any of the District's estimated 25,000 illegal immigrants who are faced with deportation.

Addittionally, an Immigration Attorney or law firm can help defend those who are facing deportation or removal from the United States.

Recall the case a couple years ago with the 2 international students who worked off - campus at minimum wage jobs and faced deportation.

We're looking at an increase of deportation appeals for people who, on the face of it, from a criminal court point of view, aren't really serious criminals.

After President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday to severely limit immigration from seven Muslim - majority nations, lawyers across Big Law jumped in to help travelers, visa and green card holders, who faced uncertainty and deportation in the wake of the order that was soon followed by federal rulings staying parts of the action.

Under the changes, certificates will be available to those meeting the income eligibility criteria who are facing secondary consequences of a criminal conviction such as a risk of deportation; immediate loss of public housing; or a significant impact on access to family and child custody.