United States mayors vow to fight Trump’s hardline immigration stance

Portland State University also issued a statement Wednesday saying it stands behind its undocumented students.

“We will be calling on local elected officials, including mayors and governors, to support us in building sanctuaries and safe spaces for undocumented immigrants and refugees”, said Karla Perez, 24, a DREAMer, law student and activist in Houston.

So far, over 100 schools have participated in the walkouts organized by a grassroots organization called the Cosecha Movement. After holding down a series of jobs in different parts of the USA – picking crops, working as gas station attendants and holding jobs in several factories – they eventually settled in the South Bronx in New York City and opened a Mexican restaurant called La Morada. “Their names and addresses are already known”.

An enthusiastic crowd repeated each speaker’s words, line by line.

“That is not our job, nor will I make it our job”, Beck said.

Trump told “60 Minutes” on November 12 that he anticipated immediately deporting two to three million undocumented immigrants with criminal records-a move consistent with his campaign rhetoric and in its general disconnect from actual facts. “This is a moment where it’s not about whether you’re personally affected anymore”. “What they’re saying is, ‘We’re not going to use our resources to separate families, to deport children, to tear communities apart'”.

A 2013report from the Department of Homeland Security estimated that about 1.9 million “removable criminal aliens” lived in the United States, a figure that included both unauthorized immigrants and noncitizens with some form of legal status. Remember we are talking about people who came forward, paid hundreds of dollars and. provided their fingerprints and the government said, ‘Go. “And yet, here we are”.

Wesson said he wants city officials to work with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Community College District to develop policies that “protect students and keep families together”.

Last year, in response to a reporter’s question, Trump said he would “certainly implement” a database on all Muslims living in the US.

The program being mentioned now was blasted by civil rights activists, and the ACLU told CNN in an interview this week that NSEERS “actually made genuine efforts at trying to combat terrorism more hard by destroying relationships with immigrant communities and actually negatively impacting the ability of the federal government to cooperate with foreign governments in fighting terrorism”.

Schill doesn’t go as far as calling the University of OR a “sanctuary campus”.

The Dreamers have gone to high schools throughout Florida and the rest of the country.

But eschewing a label and cooperating with President Barack Obama’s Justice Department doesn’t let New Orleans off the hook, Sen.

“In the coming days and weeks I will discuss this option with the appropriate offices and Trustees”, he wrote.

“I think at a minimum the pardon power can be used effectively legally to put DACA recipients or DREAMers on a path to regularize their status if they had another method to do it”.

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His motion also asks for a definition for “sanctuary city” and an examination of how that designation would apply in Los Angeles, and asks for an inventory of the federal funds, grants and loans the city receives.

Gutierrez said a pardon would not give immigrants a “permanent safe place”, but it would end the “widespread and dangerous” fear sparked by the anti-immigrant rhetoric that Trump and his supporters touted throughout the campaign.

More than 200 state and local jurisdictions have policies that call for not honoring US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention requests, the agency’s director, Sarah Saldaña, told Congress a year ago.

(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu). San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, right, speaks with Public Defender Jeff Adachi before a meeting at City Hall in San Francisco by city leaders and community activists to reaffirm the city’s commitment to being a sanctuary city in respo.