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TEXAS - The results of an annual poll released Tuesday reveal how Texans feel regarding immigration.

The Texas Lyceum, a nonprofit, non-partisan group, conducts and releases the results of their poll annually. The 2017 poll was conducted April 3 through April 9 and queried 1,000 adult Texans. The Texas Lyceum said Tuesday that this was the first year that the poll covered the issue of immigration.

The results of the poll revealed that Texans believe that immigration is the number one issue facing the state and nation, but 62 percent of Texans polled said that immigration helps the United States more than it hurts. The younger the respondent was, the more positively they viewed immigration.

Sixty-one percent of Texans opposed President Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico in order to stop illegal immigration. Additionally, 62 percent of those polled responded, "no," to the question, "Do you want (Trump) to deport millions of illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.?"

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Federal agents are targeting Latino communities and requiring the Shelby County jail to detain people if theyre believed to be in the United States illegally, according to a Memphis-based immigration attorney.

Anybodys at risk, Veronica Cooper, an immigration attorney in Memphis, told FOX13. Everybodys at risk.

President Donald Trump promised his supporters while on the campaign trail, "We are going to get the bad ones out.

Cooper said agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), guided by the Trump administration, are targeting innocent Latinos and people arrested for non-violent crimes, such as driving with a suspended license.

They'll go to a neighborhood, they'll talk to people, Cooper said, People they find undocumented, they take them.

Were seeing more of people being picked up from 201 Poplar, Cooper said, describing an increase in detainments at the Shelby County Jail.

The result is a more crowded Federal Immigration Court in Memphis that was already overwhelmed before Trump took over the White House.

Data show an increase in immigration cases this year in Memphis. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, compiles data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

The data show an increase in immigration cases in Memphis every year since 2006, but the number is higher than average this year.

Between 2010 and 2016, there was an average annual increase of about 1,000 immigration cases in Memphis. In less than four months in 2017, the number of new cases in Memphis has nearly surpassed the annual average, with 958 new cases.

Federal Immigration Court Judges in Memphis hear cases of families in four states, including Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky.

I think it will get worse, Cooper said. Its going to get more crowded.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last week the U.S. Department of Justices plan to add 75 immigration judges to the courts over the next year, to accommodate the increase in cases.

We're really not enforcing immigration, Earle Farrell, the spokesperson for the Shelby County Sheriffs Office, said. If we come looking for you, we're looking for you because you broke the law, but not immigration laws.

Farrell said local law enforcement in Shelby County is leaving immigration enforcement to federal agents, but local law enforcement can be asked to detain inmates suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

If ICE gives us a hold on somebody, we put a hold on them, Farrell said. We keep them for them.

Cooper said shes noticed more clients being held in jail, even after paying their bonds.

We've seen local law enforcement cooperate as it pertains to holding people on what's called a detainer warrant, Cooper said. So people are making bonds, but they're not releasing them which to me is unconstitutional.

Its more important now, Cooper said, for people to know their rights.

If they come to your home you dont have to open the door, Cooper said. If you encounter them on the street, you don't have to talk to them. The same thing at your work place.

A group of local nonprofits is planning A Day Without Immigrants Strike on May 1, when immigrants will stay home from work and marches are expected to take place in Memphis.

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Illegal migrants occupied the town hall for about an hour, frightening members of the public in the building as well as staff who had to retreat to their offices.

The migrants, who work at Rungis International Market, the worlds largest wholesale food market, began piling into the town hall at around 8.30 am, but staff didnt notice their arrival until it was too late, according to Le Parisien.

When officers arrived to break up the protest and evacuate the town hall, they were forced to use tear gas as a group of around forty illegal immigrants were blocking access to the building. Le Parisien reports that following clashes, 14 people received medical treatment with three hospitalised.

This illegal occupation prevented Alfortvillians from accessing public services throughout the morning, and caused anxiety among town hall staff and families who were already present in the building, the communes Socialist mayor Luc Carvounas said in a statement.

Although staff received the men, and listened to their demands, the members of the collective did not wish to enter into any dialogue, instead contenting themselves with denouncing government policy.

Suggesting the protest was linked to the far left, the mayor denounced the action as having been exploitation of human misery for political purposes.

Carvounas argued that it is unreasonable for far left groups to target his town hall, since, in October 2015, Alfortville was one of the first communes in France to declare itself in favour of welcoming migrants.

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There are signs that fewer immigrants in the U.S. illegally are filing taxes than in previous years.

Millions of taxpayers are rushing to complete their federal and state filings before the April 18 deadline. Among them are several million people in this country illegally, and there are signs that fewer such immigrants are filing than in years past.

There is a common belief that immigrants in this country without authorization don't file or pay taxes. But the IRS says that last year nearly 4.5 million people across the country who don't have Social Security numbers filed federal tax returns and many are in this country illegally.

At the Unity Council, an East Oakland, Calif., community-based organization offering free tax preparation for low-income people, about a dozen clients and IRS-certified volunteer tax preparers spent a recent afternoon hunched over rows of aging computers.

"We'll help everyone," says Clarissa Johnson, who directs the clinic. "We don't ask them about their immigration status. That is between them and the tax preparer and that is confidential."

Many of these people use Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, or ITINs. Many ITIN holders are foreign investors or students. But it's generally understood that most tax filers using an ITIN are in this country illegally like 36-year-old Axel, who asked that we not use his last name because of his immigration status. He came to the U.S. from Guatemala several years ago. In his native Spanish, he said he has no hesitation about filing his tax returns.

"First, because it's my responsibility, I want to do things the correct way," he says.

Axel says a few years ago a shady tax preparer made mistakes on his return and he wound up getting fined several thousand dollars.

"I don't like to create problems for myself," he says.

There is an obvious incentive to file: a chance to get a refund. Johnson says another reason is that if a person winds up in immigration court, a record of having filed taxes is considered evidence of "good moral character."

"And especially if they are working toward their citizenship, it's something that can show that they're here for the long haul. They're here each year paying their taxes," she says.

According to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an office of the IRS, ITIN filers last year paid almost $24 billion in federal taxes.

Yet as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, there's some anecdotal evidence that fewer immigrants using ITINs are choosing to file their taxes this year.

"Many of our clients are telling us that in years past they felt more hope and more of an ability to have a pathway toward citizenship and lately there's a lot less hope," says Max Moy-Borgen, who runs the tax program at the Mission Economic Development Agency in San Francisco. It's one of the largest free tax preparation programs in the country..

Sending in a tax return with your current address and information is very unnerving to a population that wants to comply with the law and is actually leaving significant refunds on the table by not filing tax returns.

Francine Lipman of the University of Nevada

Overall, tax service providers in the San Francisco Bay Area say there's about a 20 percent decline in the number of people filing with ITINs. There are similar reports from service providers in other areas of the country, according to Francine Lipman, who teaches tax law at the University of Nevada.

"Sending in a tax return with your current address and information is very unnerving to a population that wants to comply with the law and is actually leaving significant refunds on the table by not filing tax returns," she says.

Still, the IRS is barred from sharing its information with other government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security except under limited circumstances.

But Lipman says many ITIN filers have to decide whether to trust that firewall.

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