Sentences with phrase «immigration bill»
An immigration bill is a proposed law that deals with the rules and regulations surrounding people moving from one country to another to live or work there. It determines how the immigration process works, including who is allowed to come into the country, how long they can stay, and what rights and responsibilities they have during their stay. Full definition
You know, you've been talking about immigration bills for 50 years and nothing's ever happened.
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The illegal immigration bill will determine how much will they have to go against the grain.
Supporters of the border measure, which also covers major elements of the larger immigration bill, garnered more than enough backing in the procedural tally, 67 to 27, to move forward.
We are facing a sixth immigration bill, an eighth terrorism bill and a 23rd justice bill.
BORDER SECURITY A MUST: RUBIO RAMPS UP PRESSURE ON IMMIGRATION BILL... Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the lead backers of the Senate immigration reform effort, says he will not support his own bill if amendments to boost border security don't pass.
The Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill back in June that would help give the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. a clear path to citizenship.
Since I believe we should be rewarding risk taking individuals, who create jobs, add value to the economy, and help America keep a step ahead of the rest of the world, I'm pleased to see so many positive proposals in the Senate immigration bill.
April 18th 2012: New Immigration Bill Puts Permanent Residents At Risk Chinese Creole (Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto)
Washington (CNN)- One day after the Senate passed a full - spectrum immigration bill with overwhelming support, the chairman of the Republican National Committee re-emphasized the need for reform but said the final contours of the legislation are far from settled.
Then, his long - fought - for immigration bill came up for debate in Congress.
The House of Representatives seemed poised to pass a bill to keep the government open until 16 February, after promising conservatives a vote on a major increase in defense spending, a hard - line immigration bill as well as other unnamed concessions that the conservative House Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows called «subplots» on Thursday night.
Freedom Caucus members feel they've been burned in the past by leadership agreeing to schedule votes on legislation — such as a conservative immigration bill by House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte — and then not following through.
The new poll comes in the aftermath of Brewer's decision to enact a controversial immigration bill into state law making it a crime to be in the country illegally.»
(CNN)- Sen. Marco Rubio flatly stated Thursday that he'll vote against his own immigration bill if it ends up including rights for gay and lesbian couples.
In April, FWD.us and other Silicon Valley leaders funded a television ad by Americans for a Conservative Direction in support of the bipartisan immigration bill introduced by the Senate's Gang of Eight.
WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America released the following statement on the bipartisan immigration bill put forward today by the Senate's «Gang of 8.»
But over the weekend, all eyes were focused on Arizona after the state's governor signed the country's most stringent immigration bill into law.
They have managed to secure much of what they want in the landmark immigration bill now pending in Congress, provisions that would allow them to fill thousands of vacant jobs with foreign engineers.
France's new immigration bill exposes the flaw in fixating on numbers rather than people's lives.
the article describes how Representative Zoe Lofgren (D - CA), who last June introduced HR 2161, «has under lock and key the draft of a broad compromise immigration bill agreed to in secret by Republican and Democratic negotiators in the last Congress.»
Leaving Ryan's office before the vote began, McCarthy had told reporters the farm bill would pass, adding conservatives will get their demand of a vote on their hardline preferred immigration bill — authored by Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte — in June.
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill contains unnecessary defensive measures, says Dr Jonathan Rogers
Leaders would put the conservative immigration bill introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R - Va.)
Rep. Mario Diaz - Balart, a Florida Republican working on a House immigration bill, spoke briefly in Spanish at the McMorris Rogers event and was heckled by one of the tea party protestors who had wandered over and yelled, «Learn English!»
House leadership has vowed to create its own immigration bill, in effect rejecting any Senate bill even if it passes with a supermajority.
Meanwhile, the controversial Immigration Bill now has its overarching documents available, LSE are looking to create a written constitution and the Daily Mail are in trouble, again.
Ryan and his team have tried for almost half a year to tweak the Freedom Caucus» favored immigration bill so it can pass with with 218 Republican votes.
One solution being floated was a minimal immigration bill dealing with DACA and border security — but the problem for the GOP in the House is fairly straightforward — if a bill does nothing on DACA it loses certain votes, and if you add DACA in, that pushes other Republicans away.
His government proposes to make «illegal working» a criminal offence in a forthcoming Immigration Bill: the tenth piece of such legislation in the past 20 years.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and some Democrats are trying to leverage the budget vote to extract a vote on an unrelated immigration bill.
But, the difficult national environment for Democrats coupled with a surge in Republican energy instate — the result of the passage of a stringent immigration bill — quickly turned the race into a serious contest.
BREAKING: SENATE PASSES SWEEPING IMMIGRATION BILL... The Senate gave final approval Thursday to an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that would create a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants while increasing security along the Mexican border.
Amendments to the criminal justice and immigration bill announced yesterday widen the understanding of when force used against criminal activity is judged to be «reasonable».
The latest notice from Rep. Steve ScaliseStephen (Steve) Joseph ScaliseHouse rejects farm bill as conservatives revolt McCarthy: There will be a June vote on Goodlatte immigration bill GOP seeks immigration deal within next 24 hours MORE's (R - La.)
Rep. Mark Meadows, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the Freedom Caucus, told reporters Thursday that members might withhold their votes for the farm bill in order to force a vote on a hard - line immigration bill.
In the end, he sidestepped normal Congressional procedures and slipped his three - page immigration bill into a 1,194 - page appropriations bill, which Congress quickly approved and President Ronald Reagan signed in December 1987.
«We had a flood of children coming across the border once again proving that no good immigration bill can pass until we have real border security,» he told George Stephanopoulos.
The leadership pledged to call up the Freedom Caucus - backed immigration bill next month.
Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, recently signed into law a strict immigration bill, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB1070 Act), igniting a nationwide discussion.
Trump «s comments, made in the White House, came as Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham briefed the president on a newly drafted immigration bill being touted by a bipartisan group of senators, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified.
It's interesting also to see this blog linking to a report that favors rejecting the most recent immigration bill that was approved by the Senate, but blocked by the house.
The Retiree Immigration bill is expected to be refiled in congress following an unsuccessful move in 2011 and law, but the extra time allowance would only apply to Canadians aged over 50 years.
If the omnibus immigration bill winding its way through the Senate were to become law, he said, he would absolutely apply.
The accord was aimed at heading off a drive by moderates who are just five Republican signatures short on a petition to force votes on a bipartisan immigration bill Democrats would likely support.
The bill, which comes up for a vote every five years, failed 198 - 213 after conservative Republicans retaliated against House Speaker Paul D. Ryan for his refusal to schedule an immediate vote on a restrictive immigration bill sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, according to the New York Times.
More than 100 House Democrats, including many Hispanics, have signed on to the comprehensive immigration bill Gutierrez introduced last December.
«health care bill will go the way of the george bush immigration bill from a few years back.