Sentences with phrase «building of a border wall»

White House press secretary Sean Spicer then followed this up with comments suggesting that the Trump administration is considering a 20 % tax on imports, starting with Mexico, that would help finance the building of a border wall between the US and Mexico.

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.

Not exact matches

«It would be considerable amounts of stone and concrete and cement,» says Nye, about building the border wall.

The Raleigh, North Carolina company could also benefit if the President's plan to build a wall along the border of the U.S. and Mexico gets the okay.

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.

Chitchat at Davos last January centered on Trump's controversial campaign pledges to impose a travel ban on a number of predominately Muslim countries, to upend the North American Free Trade Agreement and to build a wall at the Mexican border.

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

One area in which Petersen breaks with Trump very specifically is the issue of «the wall,» which the president has long promised to build along the entire US - Mexico border to stem the tide of undocumented immigrants and drugs entering the country.

Based on Trump's 2017 budget request for $ 2.6 billion to plan, design and build 75 miles of wall, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill's office estimated the per - mile cost would be about $ 37 million, or nearly $ 67 billion for the entire 2,000 - mile border.

In recent months, the real estate mogul has staked out fringe positions, for example proclaiming the need to build a wall across the U.S. border with Mexico to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants.

President - elect Donald Trump has threatened to bar all Muslims from entering the country, and suggested building a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» across the southern border of the U.S. Recently, he said he would deport millions of undocumented immigrants at once.

«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.

Asked in the 60 Minutesinterview if he plans to actually build the wall, he said yes, adding that parts of the border might include fencing.

Undocumented tech workers don't believe building a border wall is realistic, but they do fully expect Trump to follow through on many of his other, less publicized anti-immigration promises.

President Donald Trump is crediting himself with the idea of building a Mexico border wall of solar panels.

Building a border wall, and having Mexico pay for it, was one of Trump's key pitches to his nationalist voter base during the 2016 campaign.

One of the biggest concrete makers in the world, Cemex also happens to be based in Mexico, which makes it an obvious choice to build Trump's promised border wall.

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.

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

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.

The first part of the promotion gave customers a chance to participate in the company's efforts to buy a section of land on the U.S. - Mexico border where President Donald Trump plans to build a wall.

In the case of Mexico, Trump has simultaneously gone after trade and immigration, promising to not only build a wall at the southern border of the U.S. but also to scrap and renegotiate NAFTA, the agreement governing trade between the countries.

Remember how Donald Trump was going to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, build an «impenetrable and beautiful» wall along the southern border and save American jobs?

Trump has promised to build a wall on the U.S. - Mexican border and deport massive numbers of illegal immigrants.

Trump has called for building a wall on the U.S. - Mexico border and forcing the Mexicans to pay for it, comments that have drawn the ire of people across the continent.

Trump has said he might have to build a fence, rather than a wall, in some areas of the U.S. - Mexican border to stop illegal immigration, tweaking one of his signature campaign promises.

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.

It did so even though Trump had spent the Sunday of Harvey's devastation tweeting about building the border wall and making Mexico pay for it.

«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.»

For example, if President Donald Trump truly wishes to build a wall on the southern border, he'll need to acquire the capital from other areas of the government's budget.

This of course comes on the tail of Donald Trump and his call to build a wall on the US - Mexico border — and have Mexico pay for it.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took the unprecedented step of using his F8 developers conference keynote to denounce a central part of Trump's stump speeches — building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Construction of the 440 - mile wall on the eastern border with Somalia began in March this year however it's only just been discovered that Israel is part of the building process.

And a comment to some of the above people, building a wall around the Israeli border with Gaza is not illegal.

You can expect within the first 100 days of his presidency that he will curtail immigration from conflict - prone areas of the world in some way and make moves to begin building a wall along the Mexican border.

The new administration has made lots of promises to tighten our borders and take a harsher stance on immigration — like deporting millions of undocumented workers, building a wall along the southern border, terminating executive amnesty and tripling the number of immigration enforcement agents.

President Trump has seen criticism from those who say he underdelivered on promises to start building the US - Mexico border wall, his fake news claims are dangerous to the media and his careless use of Twitter.

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.

According to a story published on the website, OnlyNews.com, the weekend after the election, a girl's volleyball team from Archer City, TX (about 2 hours north of Dallas) was playing against a team from Fort Hancock ISD in Snyder, TX (a town on the Texas / Mexico border which happens to be 97 percent Hispanic) when students from Archer City starting chanting «Build a Wall!»

A group of senators reached a bipartisan agreement aimed at balancing Democrats» fight to offer citizenship to young «Dreamer» immigrants with Trump's demands for billions to build his coveted border wall with Mexico, lawmakers said.

The White House presented Congress with an expansive list of hard - line immigration measures, including an $ 18 billion request to build a wall at the Mexican border, that President Trump is demanding in exchange for protecting young undocumented immigrants.

President Trump visits California today where he will appear at the U.S - Mexico border to promote the prototypes of the border wall he has promised to build in his fight against illegal immigration.

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.

Trump said that his plan for a wall along the Mexican border has «never changed or evolved,» in tweets posted after his chief of staff said he was not «fully informed» when he pledged to build it last year.

President Donald Trump is expected to use the podium in Phoenix at a campaign - style rally tonight to defend his hard - line approach on immigration and to pressure Congress for more than $ 1 billion to build the southern border wall that was at the core of his presidential campaign.

The Trump administration announced it has chosen four companies to build concrete prototypes of the president's much - touted border wall.

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.

Alcivar said Stefanik has condemned some of Trump's most egregious missteps, including his attack on the family of a Muslim soldier who died in Iraq, his proposed ban on Muslims entering the country, his promise to build a wall along the Mexican border and, most recently, his videotaped bragging about making unwanted sexual advances on women.

Trump claims the jurist can't be impartial in the case since Curial is of Mexican heritage and Trump plans to build a wall along the southern border.

Her views on the issue are diametrically opposed to those of Mr. Trump, who in his campaign kick - off argued that drug dealers and rapists were entering the United States from Mexico and has called for the United States to build a wall at the southern border and force Mexico to pay for its construction.