Sentences with phrase «border wall by»

President Obama called Trump's plan to force Mexico to build a border wall by cutting off billions of dollars in money transfers from Mexican immigrants «half - baked,» adding: «Good luck with that.»

The Trump administration reportedly is planning to offset the steep cost of a Mexico border wall by instructing the Department of Homeland Security to cut spending on surveillance technology and freeze the pay of federal officers in the 2019 fiscal year.

Not exact matches

At the same time, that would lower any revenue generated by the border tax to pay for the wall.

«Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump,» Zuckerberg said, referencing the orders Trump signed earlier this week to build a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border and prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants from so - called sanctuary cities in the U.S.

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

Trump: «Since I was elected, illegal border crossings — and this is without the wall, before the wall — have decreased by more than 75 %, a historic and unprecedented achievement.»

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.

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.

«I was more of an ideas guy, really,» he continued, and said that the border wall was his idea — but he wanted it to be a «moat filled with spiky blow fish» paid for by Alec Baldwin.

The crisis — spurred largely by Syria's civil war — has caused numerous political spats, leading to the construction of walls around certain countries and the closing of borders between others.

That bill would extend current federal spending into December, allowing time for further negotiations over key GOP priorities — including the Mexican border wall demanded by Trump.

President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, bouncing from an attack by a gunman in France to his plans for a border wall to his personal legal team.

mama kindless... I'm sorry to disappoint you but Israel is A SOVEREIGN STATE and has every right to defend its borders by creating walls, barries, etc..

Considering the hate generated by passages in the koran, erecting dividing walls between Muslims and Jews was a great idea and building should continue along the UN approved borders.

Trump also committed to work with Congress to repeal and replace the health care law, to divert education funds to school - choice programs, and to stop illegal immigration by funding the construction of a wall on the Mexican border and other provisions.

Trump said he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, build a wall on the southern border paid for by Mexico and that Muslims should be stopped from entering the US.

Not only could building a border wall be visualized by anyone in 5 seconds flat, but it also symbolized Trump's tough stand on illegal immigration in a surprising way that would never be suggested by an ordinary politician.

Trump again insisted on funding for his promised border wall, making clear the high hurdle faced by a bipartisan pair of senators who are backing an immigration plan that leaves out wall funding and other of his demands.

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

Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between the president and Democrats over his border wall.

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.

It appears the president's tweet was motivated by an internal House Republican fight over transgender troops that was threatening to blow up a spending bill stacked with Trump campaign promises — including money to build his border wall with Mexico.

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 Clinton carried the 23rd District by 3 points, and Hurd has already distanced himself from Trump in this 68 percent Hispanic district by coming out against the border wall with Mexico.

That glue is Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, whose plans to place a temporary ban on Muslim immigration from certain countries and build a wall along the U.S. - Mexico border are deeply opposed by both factions in the party.

Following the refusal by Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto to pay for the border wall proposed by US President, Donald Trump, US President has advised Nieto to called the supposed meeting scheduled to hold on January 31st.

Schumer said Tuesday that funding for wall along the U.S. - Mexico border as being pushed by the president is «off the table.»

And he'll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.»

Trump's promise to use existing funds to begin immediate construction of a wall on the U.S. - Mexico border has hit a financial roadblock, according to a document seen by Reuters, with the DHS identifying only $ 20 million that can be re-directed to the multi-billion-dollar project.

U.S > Senate Democrats warned Republicans that attempts to take funding away from Planned Parenthood or pay for Trump's border wall in a stopgap spending bill that must pass by late April would result in a government shutdown.

By signing a pair of executive orders, President Trump began a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration, ordering the immediate construction of a border wall with Mexico and aggressive efforts to find and deport unauthorized immigrants.

«It is past time for Senator Schumer to use his political power in Congress as the minority leader and finally bring home a clean #DreamActNow for undocumented youth, without compromising the future of their families by funding a racist wall and increased border security measures that only tear families apart.»

«Because basically what the transaction is, is the president saying to the Democrats, I'll give you what you already have, which is DACA, and in exchange I want more money for border security with Mexico, which... is going to turn into a wall by the time he's finished.»

In a prison - break drawing comparisons to the film The Shawshank Redemption, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out of the facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, early Saturday morning by cutting through steel walls, shimmying through a steam pipe and emerging from a manhole on the outside.

Speaking at the National Immigrant Integration Conference, the governor joined the growing Democratic pile - up on the real estate magnate over his controversial calls for a wall along the Mexican border and for a moratorium on Muslim immigration, though he did not mention the Queens - born builder by name.

Speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, he compared Brexit to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump's plan to keep Mexicans out of the US by building a big wall on the southern US border.

Flesch, a biologist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, has studied ferruginous pygmy owls, whose short, low flights might be crimped by high border walls.

Based on a scientific literature review of 14 other publications, including some that looked at effects of existing walls and fences on the border, the authors outlined several concerns about the proposed wall, including habitat destruction and degradation caused by the construction of the wall and the roads on either side of the wall.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.

Many pharmaceutical scientists study the absorption of drugs by cultivating intestinal cells into a thin membrane layer that has all the features of a real intestinal wall, including various nutrient transport channels and a brush border.

Inspired by French Country elegance, this stencil works beautifully on walls and can be used as a stand - alone design, repeated in a pattern or as a border design.

It was Malta's ancient and enclosed capital, bordered by honey - hued stucco walls.

Featuring a crisp zig zag pattern bordered by bold black, these plush wall hangings add a modern visual element to any bedroom decor.

Under a Moroccan barrel ceiling, this Mediterranean powder room is illuminated by Hulton Sconces mounted to gray diamond pattern wall tiles lined with blue border tiles.

I discovered that most of St. Oswald's was screened from public view; the main building by a long avenue of linden trees — now bare — which bordered the drive, and the land surrounded on all sides by walls and hedges.

The walls are covered with orange - and - green wallpaper, briefly interrupted by a giant gold leaf — bordered print of a Victorian cottage that resembles the building we're in.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he would seek billions of dollars in assistance to rebuild Texas and Louisiana from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey but renewed his threat to shut down the government if Congress won't agree to begin building a wall on the Mexican border.

Dig a section of border to a depth of 30 — 45 cm (12 — 18 inches), ideally choosing a patch that is against a fence or wall and surrounded by shrubbery.

See where it has cut deep into the landscape producing the wonderful Geikie Gorge that is bordered by sheer walls of yellow, orange and grey.