Sentences with phrase «get immigration reform»

02/25/2014: LULAC issues call asking membership to contact the House of Representatives and urge them to get immigration reform over the finish line!

At a forum hosted by Univision, President Obama said his inability to get an immigration reform plan past through Congress was his «biggest failure.»

Not exact matches

The time for immigration reform is now: The tech industry is pushing hard for comprehensive immigration reform to get wider access to foreign talent.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

And in the intervening years, the need for immigration reform has only gotten more extreme.

Presumably, the U.S. will get around to reforming its ridiculous immigration policies sometime after the next election.

If we can shift opinions among conservative activists, then it becomes more likely that even the John McCains of the Republican party will go along and we might even get enough support from Democrats from competitive constituencies to actually pass a good immigration reform bill.

And immigration is so dysfunctional... we really just need comprehensive reform that can [discern between] folks [who just want] to get citizenship and folks who are dangerous.

It is the Conservatives who are tightening immigration, bringing in sweeping reforms to pensions, getting a grip on welfare handouts, he says.

leader on Select Committee on Benghazi: Stop the circus - Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Joseph Crowley, D - New York, at a News Conference: «Instead of focusing on a hearing on immigration reform and getting a bill on the floor... House Republicans are now focused on the creation of a new select committee.

The other party leader Farron can learn from is - wait for it - Nigel Farage, the man he impersonated to help Nick Clegg prepare for his televised Euro - joust with the Ukip leader last year: «I don't know what Ukip's position is on local government reform, or on land value taxation, [or] on transport, but I've got a pretty clear idea what they think about immigration.

Speaking in Somerset yesterday, David Cameron said: «It's a simple and straight choice, at your county council and at the next election, between the blue team who want to keep getting the deficit down, who want to keep reforming immigration and welfare to make it fair, or you have the red team who put the deficit up and who don't care if our immigration and welfare system works at all.»

We can quibble over policy and strategic details: the way in which the debate on immigration is following the welfare debate is becoming divorced from fact; the persistent failure of banking «reform» to get to the fundamental issues; and the possibility that the government's dearth of competence may be a weaker spot than their closeness to fat cat Britain.

«That's just not true,» she said, noting that the union helped undocumented members get legal status in the early 1960s, and has lobbied for immigration reform since the 1980s.

It was around that time that Graham publicly stated his hopes that Obama would get more involved in pushing immigration reform, in order to give it a chance to pass this year.

So far, what we've got are a couple of «FAQ» - like posts and one column on immigration reform by the co-chair of the group, Ted Ruthizer (who should take advantage of his e-mail alias — «truthizer» — either by becoming a superhero or by inventing a new kind of polygraph).

Under federal law (Immigration Reform and Control Act), an alien is prohibited from using another person's lawfully obtained document to get a job.

«Reducing our deficit, reforming our tax code, fixing our immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign oil — we've got more work to do.»