Sentences with phrase «republican immigration policy»

What is her view of Republican immigration policy and was any member of her family at any time illegal?

He continued to deride Republican Donald Trump and also took shots at Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio over Republican immigration policies.

Not exact matches

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

With a Republican Congress backing him (most items need 60 % support to pass in the Senate), Trump will be in a position to reverse trade agreements, immigration policies, Roe V. Wade, the Iran nuclear deal, and any other policy the party takes issue with — including those that impact how Canadians do business with the United States.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, right, talks to Adolofo, center, Miranda and Emilio Martinez, as Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, D - Ill., listens, before the start of a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 14, 2015, on the House Republican's immigration policies.

But the the party also remains divided on some policy basics and it remains to be seen how deeply Trump's victory will rewire Republican thinking on issues from immigration reform to trade.

All of the major companies there — Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft — have increased lobbying and policy operations in Washington since the 2016 election to deal with a Republican - controlled Congress and the Trump administration, whose policies tend to run counter to the tech industry's stances on immigration and other issues.

It is also the case that, according to opinion polls, Democrats and Republicans would prefer that future immigration policies favor skills and English proficiency.

To the extent that immigration policy is a proxy for the divisions between Republican elites and populists, McCarthy was worse than Boehner, and Ryan is worse than McCarthy.

DREAM Act - type laws aside, immigration policy won't result in any major Republican gains among nonwhites by itself, and waiting a couple of months to think things through won't hurt.

Second, immigration policy, if it is not coupled with a wider agenda, has a chance to hurt the Republicans among middle and working - class voters if they aren't careful.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

Before Republicans start making immigration policy, they should work on constructing a coherent and prudent platform.

The Republican establishment has gone much farther in alienating voters on immigration policy.

The immigration policies had the support of the donor class, and Republican elites find it distasteful to advance conservative social policies — even when it is politically advantageous.

Even if Republicans win, the office holders will always find some excuse to deemphasize social issues and push the donor class's preferred immigration policy.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

This is the least popular immigration policy option among Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

It's clear that the Republican establishment's immigration policy preferences aren't based on the need for «inclusion» or the need to «grow» the party.

Meanwhile, Haley Barbour's lobbyist nephew Henry was one of the author's of the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» that, while admitting that the Republican National Committee was not a policy body, called on the party to embrace «comprehensive immigration reform».

Much of the retrospective commentary about Buchanan's 1996 run for president (when he finished second in the race for the Republican nomination) focuses on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.

He has pushed immigration to the forefront of the 2016 Republican primary, and his crude bravado in speaking to this issue is one of the major reasons he's still riding high.No one denies that US immigration policy is a mess.

The Republican party in the 1970s had conservative wings, the anti abortion wing for example and a few holdouts from the Dixiecrats, but it was nothing like the Republican party today where tax cuts and anti immigration are mandatory policies.

The five Republican candidates for governor met Thursday for one of the last televised debates before the primary, clashing over tax policy, immigration...

@SDsolar There is always the possibility that Republican legislators have come to the conclusion the president has proposed a policy that has not been well thought through and is therefore likely to fail, similar to his actions on immigration.

President Trump's immigration policies, his sharp rhetoric about building a wall on the Mexican border and his actions regarding Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria have energized Hispanics voters and turned many of them away from the Republican party.

Washington (CNN)- A bipartisan group of senators is scrambling to reach a fresh compromise they hope can propel a proposal to overhaul U.S. immigration policy toward passage in that chamber and provide momentum heading into the Republican - controlled House.

The five Republican candidates for governor met Thursday for one of the last televised debates before the primary, clashing over tax policy, immigration proposals and gun rights.

But Cuomo, who has refrained from a sustained criticism of President Trump save for blasting his immigration policies, pivoted to a far bigger villain for him: the Republican - led Congress and a «hyperconservative» ideology that has taken over the party writ large.

Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis — the former New York chair of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign — today urged the Department of Justice to follow through on its threat to deny New York City federal dollars unless it ends its policy of noncompliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It has hobbled the ability of the Democratic Party, which technically won a majority in the state Senate in 2012 and 2016 (Republicans won the majority in 2014), to push for progressive policies in areas like health care, voting reform, reproductive rights, and immigration.

Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis urged the Department of Justice to follow through on its threat to deny New York City federal dollars unless it ends its policy of noncompliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Republican White House hopefuls insisted that President Obama step aside and let his successor nominate the next Supreme Court justice, in a raucous Saturday night debate that also featured harshly personal jousting over immigration and foreign policy.

The Assembly bill, which stands little chance of being approved in the Republican - led Senate, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement — part of a raft of measures approved on Monday in the chamber seeking to counter President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

Federal immigration policies could have a negative effect on the Southern Tier wine - making industry, some constituents are telling Republican Rep. Tom Reed.

The idea to set an immigration policy came in response to a nationwide effort led by Republican President Donald Trump to deport undocumented immigrants.

Establishing an immigration policy came in response to a nationwide effort led by Republican President Donald Trump to deport undocumented immigrants.

«I think the city's policy on immigration doesn't need to be changed,» Massey said during a discussion at the Metropolitan Republican Club on the Upper East Side.

Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and Richard Corcoran continue to spar over immigration policies and in the latest — the Tallahassee Democratic mayor has challenged the Republican state house speaker to a debate.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. John Katko broke ranks with House Republicans on Wednesday, voting against a GOP amendment to roll back President Obama's recent changes to immigration policy.

The deal faces an uphill battle in the House, where conservative Republicans are concerned about spending increases and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi objected to temporarily setting aside immigration policy demands from the budget process.

Today's House action is the latest battle in a protracted war over immigration policy between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans.

He joined other Republican attorneys general in a lawsuit over Obama's immigration policies.