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There is concern for the undocumented Irish living in the US after Donald Trump vowed to deport or imprison millions of immigrants. While the US president-elect has rowed back on some of his campaign pledges, his immediate affirmation of a plan to round up and deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records -- a group he estimated at between two and three million people -- has caused alarm.
Immigration advocates are asking the Obama administration to release thousands of detained Central American women and children who want asylum in the U.S., citing concerns that Donald Trump will deport them after his inauguration in January. Representatives of groups including the Women's Refugee Commission and the American Immigration Lawyers Association met with White House officials last week to discuss a host of immigration issues, including the fate of about 4,000 Central American detainees, some as young as two years old, who have fled violence in their home countries.
Seattle says it will spend $250,000 to help address the needs of undocumented immigrants enrolled in the city's public schools as well as their families. The decision was part of an executive order signed Thursday by Mayor Ed Murray.
As the labor market tightens and the population of undocumented immigrants shrinks, employers in low-skill industries such as hospitality, construction and agriculture scramble to fill jobs In Dallas, the King of Texas Roofing Co. says it has turned down $20 million worth of projects in the past two years because it doesn't have enough workers.
Central American countries warned on Thursday that large numbers of migrants have fled their poor, violent homes since Donald Trump's surprise election win, hoping to reach the United States before he takes office next year. Trump won the Nov. 8 vote by taking a hard line on immigration, threatening to deport millions of people living illegally in the United States and to erect a wall along the Mexican border.
If you are a school district that refuses to allow students to use the restroom of their choosing, you could be in big trouble. Your federal funding could be reduced or eliminated.
Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. There's a big contradiction in Trump's plan to secure the border and undermine the Mexican auto industry President-elect Donald Trump promised during the election to get tough on undocumented immigrants from Mexico by among other things building a massive wall.
In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, high school students protest in opposition of Donald Trump's presidential election victory in San Francisco. Thousands of high school students have taken to the streets in cities across the country since Donald Trump's election to protest his proposed crackdown on illegal immigration and his vulgar comments about women.
Demonstrators including students from local high schools as well as a college rally in front of Homestead City Hall against President-elect Donald Trump and are asking that the city be used as a sanctuary city and their respective schools be sanctuary campuses. Trump has said he will crack down on so-called "sanctuary cities" or cities that don't help federal authorities seize undocumented immigrants.
This year's class of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. includes students who have used data to visualize sea level rise, some who speak several languages and the son of undocumented immigrants. The Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American men and women chosen as scholars early Sunday.
Chico >> Claudia Martinez Pureco, 20, was leading a club meeting at Chico State University on the night of the election. The third-year concrete industry management major remembers wishing the meeting were longer because she didn't want to go home and watch the votes come in.
There are growing concerns over how Donald Trump's White House will treat undocumented immigrants who came here as children. Thousands of demonstrators at reportedly more than 80 colleges and universities have signed petitions and walked out in support of undocumented classmates.
Following a campaign where President-elect Donald Trump built a platform based on mass deportations of illegal aliens and the construction of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, some Ennis residents of Mexican descent say they are worried about their futures in America.
With a wide ocean separating Canada from the Middle East, the Taliban and ISIS, we squirmed in sympathy. Refugees from war-torn countries swarmed Europe's shores.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three senior leaders of his national security and law enforcement teams, choosing Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and General Mike Flynn as national security adviser, a transition official said on Friday. In choosing Sessions as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Trump would award a loyalist whose hard-line and at times inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own.
But Trump's enforcement approach is not only reasonable, it is very feasible, and will address the most disastrous failings of the Obama administration's faux-enforcement regime, which brought interior deportations to a ten-year low and caused the release of tens of thousands of criminal aliens back to our communities to Said Trump: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate."
Nearly 2,000 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College students rallied Wednesday in a move to urge college administrators to protect undocumented immigrants under the presidency of Donald Trump.
The protests come a week after the election of Donald Trump, who's said deporting millions of undocumented immigrants will be a top priority once he takes office. That depends who you ask.
The Obama Administration should protect those "dreamers," who were brought to the United States illegally but later granted legal temporary status to stay, a U.S. congresswoman said on Tuesday. The Obama Administration in the remaining term should take legal action to prevent those who enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , and Deferred Action for Parents of American and Lawful Permanent Residents programs from being deported, said Judy Chu, the first Chinese American congresswoman.