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Minister slams Boris Johnson's call for illegal immigrant amnesty after Foreign Secretary clashes with May during bad-tempered Cabinet meeting A minister has slapped down Boris Johnson for calling for an amnesty for illegal immigrants following a bad tempered clash in Cabinet. Nadhim Zahawi said the Foreign Secretary was making a 'wrong assumption' about the status of people living and working illegally in Britain.
Latest DACA ruling gives NJ Dreamers hope Immigrant advocates continue to stress the need for a permanent fix to protect young undocumented workers from deportation. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://njersy.co/2HZ7miV A number of DACA Dreamers begin a 240-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C on their quest to get a permanent legislative fix for Dreamers.
A third federal judge Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's reasoning for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. In a scathing 60-page ruling, Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbiawrote that administration moves to cancel DACA were "arbitrary" and "capricious" because DHS "failed adequately to explain its conclusion the program was unlawful."
The ruling is broadest so far against administration's move to end the Obama-era program, but judge postpones effect to allow administration to respond WASHINGTON-A third federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration's decision to cancel an Obama-era program protecting young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
A federal judge in Washington delivered the toughest blow yet to the Trump administration's efforts to phase out an Obama-era program for undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers," ordering the administration to continue the program and accept new applicants for the first time. U.S. District Judge John Bates called the government's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "virtually unexplained" and therefore "unlawful."
President Donald Trump threatened to make Mexican immigration control a condition of a new NAFTA agreement on Monday, saying the southern U.S. neighbor must stop illegal immigrants from getting into the United States. "Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement," Trump wrote in a Twitter post.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday promised members of the illegal immigrant caravan still making its way to the U.S. border that they could face criminal charges if they jump the border despite all the warnings. The migrants insist they are refugees seeking asylum from specific oppression at home, not rank-and-file illegal immigrants trying to reunite with family or get jobs or a better life in the U.S. They said they'll make their case.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made overhauling the chronically backlogged immigration courts a top priority -- but some of his moves seem to run counter to recommendations in a Justice Department-commissioned report made public on Monday. While some of the recommendations, such as increasing staffing, have been part of his efforts, other steps -- such as requiring judges to process a target amount of cases -- run contrary to the study's suggestions.
A woman who is seeking asylum has her fingerprints taken by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at a pedestrian port of entry from Mexico to the United States, in McAllen, Tex., on May 10, 2017. UNLIKE DEFENDANTS charged with crimes, illegal immigrants under threat of deportation - a civil proceeding - have no right to a lawyer.
Sudanese authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle 63 illegal immigrants, including 29 foreigners, in Sudan's North Darfur State, the official SUNA news agency reported on Saturday. "The Rapid Support Forces, in coordination with the National Intelligence and Security Services , have managed to stop a human smuggling group with 26 Ethiopians and 37 Sudanese," North Darfur State Governor Abdul-Wahid Yousif told SUNA.
The driver of a tractor-trailer found in Texas last summer packed with dozens of undocumented immigrants, 10 of whom died, was sentenced Friday to life without parole in a federal prison. James Matthew Bradley Jr., 61, pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to transport aliens resulting in death and one count of transporting aliens resulting in death.
Amber Rudd privately pledged to give the Home Office "teeth" in efforts to remove illegal migrants from the UK, according to a leaked memo. The Home Secretary set out her vision to "radically reshape" the department's immigration enforcement activities in a letter to Theresa May last January.
Jesus Ascencio Molina, 24, an immigrant from Mexico was arrested last week after he allegedly attempted to kill a co-worker with a nail gun. An illegal immigrant who was previously deported was arrested in Oregon on Saturday after he went on a rampage and almost killed his co-worker with a nail gun, officials said.
A national publication has been digging into illegal immigration enforcement through Pennsylvania, and York County is getting a lot of attention. Hanover immigrant's run-in with ICE highlights lack of accountability A national publication has been digging into illegal immigration enforcement through Pennsylvania, and York County is getting a lot of attention.
A report from the Department of Homeland Security says that dozens of gang members - including members of the notorious MS-13 group - were released from custody, instead of being handed over to federal immigration authorities for deportation, due to "sanctuary" policies. "Two-thirds of the releases occurred in California, which has had a strict sanctuary policy in effect since January 2014," the Center for Immigration Studies said in a post on the data, pointing to "obvious public safety problems."
Effingham County State's Attorney Bryan Kibler said they decided to "flip the script" and "make this a sanctuary county like they would for undocumented immigrants." Illinois county votes to become 'sanctuary county' for gun owners Effingham County State's Attorney Bryan Kibler said they decided to "flip the script" and "make this a sanctuary county like they would for undocumented immigrants."
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he would join President Donald Trump's border mission by contributing up to 400 National Guard troops, announcing a deal after a week of uncertainty about how to accomplish a deployment that focuses largely on illegal immigration and honor the governor's insistence that troops avoid immigration-related work. Brown said the Guard's duties include fighting transnational criminal gangs and drug and gun smugglers in an order that reiterates his initial positions that the Guard cannot handle custody duties for anyone accused of immigration violations, build border barriers or have anything to do with immigration enforcement.
Protesters jam the north security gate to San Francisco International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, condemning President Trump's executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country. About half of Californians say they support President Trump's Muslim travel ban and more deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a new poll that challenges the conventional belief that residents of the left-leaning Golden State are overwhelmingly allergic to the administration's hard line on immigration.
Judge Kimba Wood, who is presiding over the case against President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, was nearly nominated by then-President Bill Clinton to serve as Attorney General in 1993. Wood was hand-picked by Hillary Clinton, who had been asked to submit a list of possible nominees for her husband's consideration.
London: Interior minister Amber Rudd apologised on Monday to thousands of British residents who arrived from the Caribbean decades ago and are now being denied basic rights after being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants. Prime Minister Theresa May is under growing pressure to resolve the issue of the 'Windrush generation' of migrants who arrived in Britain more than 50 years ago and have become victims of a recent tightening of the immigration system.