Sentence examples for irregular status from inspiring English sources
His visit will also shine light on the irregular status of many Mexicans in America.
Currently, even United States citizens face separation from their spouses for up to 10 years because of draconian penalties imposed for irregular status.
Now, merely being in irregular status can earn a migrant a prison sentence; property rented to irregular immigrants can be confiscated.
A 2013 study revealed that fully half of deportations processed that year under S-Comm resulted from traffic and/or immigration violations associated with irregular status or past irregular entry.
Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization.
A report published in 2014 by charity Legal Action Group, titled Chasing Status: If Not British, Then What Am I?, highlighted the plight of thousands of long-term UK residents who were unable to prove their immigration status, or had "irregular" status.
Migrants with irregular statuses return home less frequently, indicating that territorial confinement accompanies these irregular statuses.
Migrants with irregular statuses remit less, indicating that their lack of secure legal status directly blocks them from cross-border action (Table 1).
The legal reality that creates these irregular statuses thus functions as an important constraint on this physical, mobile form of cross-border action across disparate immigration-policy regimes.
While Table 3 displays the negative direct effects of irregular legal statuses and the positive direct effects of visits to the homeland on the remittances of Senegalese migrants, these models do not allow testing of the hypothesis of an indirect effect of irregular statuses on remitting via territorial confinement (see Fig. 1 for the theoretical model).
Finally, the caging hypothesis (H4) posits that the territorial confinement of migrants with irregular statuses (H1) constrains social ties with the homeland (H3) in a way that dampens non-mobile cross-border engagement.
