Sentences with phrase «about issues of immigration»

In the same way, I elect public officials who are experts in their fields, so that I can do my work without worrying about issues of immigration, or national defense, or whatever.

«People want us to be frank about the issue of immigration, it has been too high for too long, and it needs to be cut, and I will cut it, and we've set out reasonably, sensibly, calmly, how that should be done.»

Former Schools Secretary and now Labour leadership contender, Ed Balls, has written in today's Observer about the issue of immigration.

Not exact matches

«I've heard from many of you who are deeply concerned about the executive order issued yesterday restricting immigration from seven Muslim - majority countries,» Cook wrote.

Boehner said he would continue to talk with the Republican caucus in the House about immigration reform, but he laid the blame at President Obama's feet, suggesting the issue was one of trust.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, asked about the possibility of attaching the immigration provision to a spending bill, said he wanted to resolve the issue.

These requests are a standard part of the process and ask the applicant for more information, but between January and November of last year, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services department issued about 40 percent more requests than in all of 2016, according to data from the department.

The idea of speaking out about political issues via social media isn't restricted to Uber, Lyft and Trump's executive order on immigration.

And though he tried to avoid diving too deep into the subject (writing in parentheses, «I'm not going to write about immigration in this letter — we have always supported proper immigration — it is a vital part of the strength of America»), Dimon eventually returned to the issue with a biting critique of Trump's pledges and executive orders intended to limit immigration.

He has been interviewed about immigration issues by The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the Voice of America and CBS News.

While about half of the 65,000 worker visas issued in 2014 under Zuckerberg's favored immigration program, H - 1B, go to the tech industry, the other half go to people working in various other occupations such as architecture, food service, and health care.

So, having said these things, I will still vote for President Obama not so much for the other issues I agree with him (immigration and especially economy), but because of the facts you Baptist Minister also mentioned about Bishop Romney (he was indeed a Mormon priest in Boston and a Mormon missionary in France).

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

But nationalism and cultural issues were more important: irritation at a loss of sovereignty to Brussels; worries about the effects of mass immigration; resentment of a cosmopolitan elite that demeans local ways; a creeping sense of social disorder, epitomized by recent satires like Martin Amis's 2012 novel Lionel Asbo: State of England.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Representatives from the same group of privileged people who dominated conversations in the 20th century continue to dominate the conversations about current issues such as modesty culture, immigration reform, relevancy in culturally - diverse America, gender issues, and more.

When pressed on the issue Labour politicians volunteer platitudes about the immigration they want to halt, but they hardly go out of there way to make a positive case.

The same basic ideas that a lot of us in the Democratic political world have been talking about, that Democratic campaigns ignored big - picture messaging around the economy, the health care law, immigration and other base - mobilizing issues while still running a turnout operation that was highly proficient technically.

In contrast, they welcomed the contributions of those with direct experience of the issues — whether a prison guard talking about immigration in Boston, a former EU commissioner describing his work in Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaigns.

«The Balls intervention perhaps highlights how there may be a range of different political responses to arguments about how and why part of Labour's electoral defeat was that it struggled with middle income, and particularly C2 voters, over issues like crime, welfare and immigration.»

What he should be talking about are the real issues in New York State, out of control legal and illegal immigration, hundreds of thousands of Americans unemployed, all these work - visa's, green cards, in America must be cancelled.

Moreover, the issues that the Leave campaign focused on had emotional resonance with voters, regardless of the veracity of their claims about immigration or the economy.

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

In May, Van Hollen traveled with Giffords to New York for a fundraiser with some financial titans, and, while she spoke about favorite issues of hers such as solar energy and national security, she spent the bulk of her time discussing immigration and its role in her race.

The Independent thinks the party can not modernise and also talk about more familiar Tory issues: «What made Mr Cameron initially seem radically different from his predecessors William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard was his decision to stop talking about those old Tory obsessions of crime, Europe, immigration and tax cuts.

From «The Response: America's Story,» we bring you a program about immigration, one of President Trump's signature issues.

But Hochul will have to spend the next four years proving herself and winning over the left, which was unenthusiastic about her candidacy, thanks to her right - of - center record on key issues like gun control and immigration during her days serving as a congresswoman and before that, as Erie County clerk.

You can talk about issues like energy, where the crew from Public Citizen enjoyed lots of time, and immigration and the new health care reform law.

In defiance of the governor's new executive order, Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard issued a directive today telling law enforcement personnel to continue asking people about their immigration status during traffic stops, arrests and domestic incidents.

Questioned about his heavily Tory - baiting speech this afternoon Cable attacked the emergence of «dog whistle politics» from the Tories on issues like immigration and benefits, and insisted that they required «more of a political response.»

For a man whose avowed aim is to reduce the salience of immigration as a political issue, David Cameron spends a lot of time talking about it.

Mr. Schneiderman said in a press release issued Wednesday that his office has received «a number of reports» about fake agents claiming to be with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and demanding money from immigrants.

Mr Corbyn said Labour could not ignore people's concerns about immigration, and said the Shadow Home Office team of Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer, who have been conducting a «listening tour» about the issue, would lead on the issue.

The conservatives and moderates have different ideas about what should be part of an immigration bill but both share the goal of wanting the House to finally act the issue.

Amid debates about renewing the party's position on issues such as austerity, immigration, patriotism and Brexit, one of the themes that came up repeatedly at fringe events was how Labour could to start to rebuild trust and support across the country by setting out a radical programme for devolution.

Tory Defectors in seats we are defending against the Lib Dems have doubts about the party's competence, clarity and values — whereas UKIP voters really are for «none of the above», disliking all three parties, and being interested only in immigration, Europe and defence — though as I found in my previous research, most of those who are attracted to UKIP are not motivated by policy issues at all.

John Mann told a meeting at Labour party conference that the party was losing the support of the white working class who were concerned about issues such as immigration.

He said immigration from Europe was too big an issue to «take a vow of silence» on, although he admitted that his party was «pretty handicapped in terms of what we can do about it» because of the EU.

The Guardian understands that Corbyn is considering convening an extra meeting of the shadow cabinet later this week to discuss the issue, which risks exacerbating the rift between MPs in post-industrial seats where there are profound concerns about immigration and those in constituencies that voted remain.

Labour said it would not be shifting ground to curtail the free movement of workers within the EU, but would say more, on its own timetable, about the trio of immigration issues of integration, exploitation and contributions.

Both Republican gubernatorial candidates, Ed Gillespie of Virginia and Kim Guadagno in New Jersey, have shed their country club Republican roots and embraced a Trump - style message about immigration and social issues, running law and order - centric ads emphasizing violence committed by Latino immigrants.

He added: «There's a long - term legacy here of us failing to bring people with us and deal with some of the issues that concern them, be they around housing, or about employment insecurity or the recession or immigration.»

Ukip is only likely to retain around half of its supporters who feel that the economy is the most pressing issue, but stands a much greater chance of sustaining its core, disadvantaged base who feel far more strongly about immigration.

Mrs Duffy had confronted Mr Brown in the final days of the election campaign as he went walkabout in her home town of Rochdale, where she took issue with him about the deficit and mass immigration.

He said the party had focused on local issues including the need for more council houses, the introduction of a # 40 charge for green refuse removal but said that concerns about immigration were also a frequent subject of conversation on the doorstep.

Someone who sees this election contest as a way of re-energising our thoughts and views about how we tackle the issues that matter: immigration, housing, welfare reform.

Getting out of Europe won't solve our problems, least of all the immigration issue — which is what the Ukip bandwagon is about for many people, hence its relatively poor showing in London.

«The majority of New Yorkers feel very strongly about immigration issues, and this is an attempt to highlight that,» Sunshine said.

Immigration, he believes «was used as a proxy for a broader concern about a range of issues.»