Sentences with phrase «as a border wall»

The idea also was proposed by one of the companies that submitted its design to the government as a border wall prototype.

Money should be diverted from less important priorities, such as the border wall, to funding of schools.

Not exact matches

Cruz says he favors building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, and would triple the number of agents on the border, as well as increase aerial surveillance.

While Trump has called for the construction of a border wall to limit immigration, for instance, Macron says he sees the future of France, and of entrepreneurship, as remaining «open.»

He has also proposed an outright ban on Muslims coming into the country, as well as building a wall on the border of Mexico.

Between the wall on the U.S. - Mexico border and the status of the undocumented young people who were brought to the country as children (known as Dreamers), immigration has been a major policy issue for the Trump administration.

Throughout the call he returns to the issue of the border wall, pressuring Peña Nieto to publicly acquiesce to some sort of payment even as he admits that Mexico will not, in the end, fund his campaign promise.

Senators failed spectacularly at a February attempt to resolve the Dreamers» fate, voting down four different deals that would exchange their protection with various other immigration - related measures, such as Trump's border wall and certain restrictions to legal immigration.

Responding to questions about Trump's views on immigration, Thiel said he did not support a religious test for Muslims as Trump has advocated for, and went on to say he did not believe Trump supporters take literally the candidate's repeated calls to build a wall along the Mexican border and make the neighboring country pay for it.

As they trek towards the Mexico - U.S. border, a group of construction workers are building a wall — ordered by President Trump — to prevent anyone from coming into the country.

Trump wanted as much as $ 25 billion to build a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, but the legislation only authorized $ 1.6 billion for fencing, surveillance technology and other measures.

As Trump approaches his first 100 days, he has aggressively pursued immigration enforcement, including executive orders for a wall along the U.S. - Mexico border and a ban on travelers from six predominantly - Muslim countries.

Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on immigrants — that doesn't just run counter to our history as the world's melting pot; it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe.

Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the U.S.

It has become fashionable to invoke Xi as a foil for Donald Trump, contrasting his promises that China will «keep its door wide open» and «say no to protectionism» with the U.S. president's defiant vows to close borders, build walls, re-write trade agreements and put «America First.»

If the U.S. were to implement a border tax on Mexican imports to pay for Trump's wall, would it really be in Canada's interest to say nothing as the other junior partner in NAFTA was so abused?

In a remarkable expression of business interests» frustration with the House anti-reform stalwarts, a Wall Street Journal editorial last week criticized their obsession with border security as «a case of the Republican Party letting its blood - and - soil wing trump its supposedly free - market principles.»

«There will be a physical wall on the Mexico border, and, as we know, Mexico is going to pay for it.»

Howard Buffett's book takes a nuanced approach to Trump's border wall and examines his personal interaction with drug addicts as a volunteer sheriff's deputy.

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

Howard Buffett, the son of the world's third - richest man, Warren Buffett, compiled his experiences as a volunteer sheriff in a recently released book about drug trafficking and President Donald Trump's proposed Mexico border wall.

In his book released Monday, «Our 50 - State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America,» Buffett took a nuanced approach to Trump's border wall and examined his personal interaction with drug addicts in the rural Arizona and Illinois counties where he serves as a volunteer sheriff's dBorder Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America,» Buffett took a nuanced approach to Trump's border wall and examined his personal interaction with drug addicts in the rural Arizona and Illinois counties where he serves as a volunteer sheriff's dBorder Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America,» Buffett took a nuanced approach to Trump's border wall and examined his personal interaction with drug addicts in the rural Arizona and Illinois counties where he serves as a volunteer sheriff's dborder wall and examined his personal interaction with drug addicts in the rural Arizona and Illinois counties where he serves as a volunteer sheriff's deputy.

«The biggest single impediment is the politics of [the border wall],» Buffett told the Arizona Daily Star, adding that he hopes his book will shed light on Americans» increasing demand for illegal narcotics as well as the short - sighted symbolism representing Trump's massive wall.

«As the government of Mexico has always maintained, our country will not pay for, under any circumstances... a wall or physical barrier built on US territory along the Mexican border.»

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

President Trump will support a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, in exchange for a $ 25 billion fund for the border wall and other immigration cuts.

The money for the process came from $ 20 million that Congress authorized the Department of Homeland Security to pull from other places in the budget earlier this year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing the federal government to begin construction on the border wall as soon as possible.

But in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump dismissed the plan, known as border adjustment, as «too complicated.»

The focus groups were also asked to respond to the idea of a border wall to prevent illegal immigration, as well as attitudes to race, including so - called «race realism,» which trumpets the fact that races should be considered different from one another.

Mr Trump criticised the pope during his 2016 presidential campaign after Francis said that anyone who wants to build a wall - as Mr Trump had promised to do along the southern border with Mexico - was «not Christian».

Finally, we must reject the unimaginative and fearful parochialism that provokes calls for expensive, environmentally harmful, and ineffective responses to immigration, such as a wall along the U.S. - Mexico border.

Despite presidential candidates» talk of building walls between the United States and Mexico, the economies of Texas border towns such as Brownsville have never been based solely on companies and consumers on only one side of the border.

Abstractly, they are simply attractive organic forms, turning a blank wall into something bordering on artistic — practically, they avoid the one - size - fits all mandate of regularly - stacked shelves where each level provides an enclosed box with the same height and width as the one below it.

Cuomo predicted that the president would utilize any additional money he gets as a result of this agreement to create a «cyber wall» along the border, with seniors, cameras and an electric grid.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged national Democrats this weekend to not trade off legal protections for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children with funding for a wall on the Mexican border.

Trump cast the Affordable Care Act as the Democrats» problem and noted that it needs money to stay afloat, tweeting as his surrogates in talk show appearances said the Democratic Party must agree to border - wall funding to avoid a government shutdown.

Can the president order the construction of a wall in the southern border just by himself, such as with an executive order?

White House officials reportedly have told key GOP leaders on Capitol Hill that President Donald Trump is open to striking a deal that would protect young immigrants from deportation in exchange for border wall funding as part of an upcoming spending bill.

Cuomo urged national Democrats to reject any plans to build Trump's border wall even as part of a deal to save «Dreamer» immigrants, although he said additional border security measures could be acceptable.

In fact, both parties» immigration stances — Democrats» efforts to protect the so - called Dreamers and Trump's insistence on funding a border wall with Mexico — are viewed by voters as less important than keeping the government open.

As Congress returns to town today, the president faces weeks of hard negotiations to overhaul the tax code, raise the debt ceiling, keep the government open, finance his border wall, and secure relief and reconstruction money for areas devastated by Hurricane Harvey.

But many have blamed Trump's success on pure prejudice, as he staked much of his candidacy on plans to build a wall on the Mexican border, deport undocumented immigrants and bar Muslims from entering the country — and attracted support from the Ku Klux Klan and other groups and figures associated with white nationalism.

Cuomo has also derided the proposed wall along the U.S. - Mexico border as «absurd.»

If China built a wall as border protection, it would be technology.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday in Plattsburgh panned President Donald Trump's push for a wall on the U.S. southern border with Mexico as «ridiculous» and «absurd.»

He mocked Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border, reminding the political world that, as one consultant put it, «you got ta fight asshole with asshole.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today dismissed Republican presidential candidate — and fellow Queens native — Donald Trump «s calls for a wall along the Mexican border to prevent rapists and drug - dealers from flooding the country as «offensive and low,» and contrary to New York's immigrant history.

Cuomo has pointedly refused to refund the money, even as he has repeatedly assailed the Republican candidate's calls for a wall on the Mexican border.