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As Congress resumed its heated conversation around immigration this week after a brief government shutdown, I was confronted with a powerful visualization of the history of today's immigration debate at «The Immigrants,» a photography exhibition on display at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York (on display until Jan. 27).
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But Mr. Sessions has sought to enforce immigration laws as they exist now, and has balked at Mr. Obama's executive actions in internal debates, administration officials said.
Although I agree with Father Richard John Neuhaus that immigration and border policy is a legitimate area of public debate (While We're At It, May), I think his view of the Mexican border situation is rather superficial in historical context.
Fellow legislator Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, referred to the ongoing debate over immigration in Congress as «a unique opportunity for us to carry out our moral and ethical responsibilities at the same time as we carry out our legal and political responsibilities.»
Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.
The Times calls Paterson's push for a so - called pardon panel «brave — and startling,» adding: «(the governor has) shown courage and common sense at a time when the national debate about immigration shows little of either.»
In a long speech at the start of the immigration debate, which saw her accused of time - wasting (ministers want to avoid further Tory rebellions) she insisted that all she was doing was doing was restoring the position that applied before Labour changed the law in 2006.
Amidst the debate about immigration in the U.S., a recently - published report prepared by several research partners, including one from the University at Buffalo, challenges the claims that immigrants are a significant influence on the crime rate.
When Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner sent a letter to President Obama offering to host undocumented Latin American children at a former convent, a spirited version of the immigration debate erupted in the area.
At 7 p.m., CBS 2 News, WCBS Radio 880, 1010 WINS, the Daily News, New York Immigration Coalition and Common Cause New York host one in a series of town halls ahead of the NYC mayoral election debates, College of Staten Island, Recital Hall, 2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Island.
Also at 7 p.m., CBS 2 News, WCBS Radio 880, 1010 WINS, the Daily News, New York Immigration Coalition and Common Cause New York host one in a series of town halls ahead of the New York City mayoral election debates, Schomburg Center, Langston Hughes Auditorium, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.
«What I would appeal today is that the debate about immigration is done with a sense of realism and a sense of respect - and that it is not cushioned in expressions which are alarmist and evocative of anger or of dismay or distress at all these people coming to this country.»
The NASUWT participated in the debate on the adverse impact of the Immigration Bill at the TUC Congress in Liverpool, highlighting the adverse impact on schools.
Speaking at an urgent Commons debate in the wake of the death, Yvette Cooper said there had been worrying reports of poor health service provision and sexual assault at the Serco - run immigration detention centre in recent years.
He made the remark at a lively EU referendum debate organised by the Guardian in London, where the issues of security and immigration loomed large and there were particularly bitter exchanges between the former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
Just look at the immigration bill... Bush is definite on the moderate side of that debate and conservatives are torpedoing the whole deal b / c of the guestworker provisions.
Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.
Amid debates about renewing the party's position on issues such as austerity, immigration, patriotism and Brexit, one of the themes that came up repeatedly at fringe events was how Labour could to start to rebuild trust and support across the country by setting out a radical programme for devolution.
«I think if you look at the debate last night, there is just a gulf between what David Cameron stands for and what I stand for — in terms of values, in terms of internationalism, in terms of fairness, in terms of progressive tax reform, in terms of political reform, in terms of simply living in denial, as does Labour, about a major problem of their creation in the immigration system.»
The debate was held at the CUNY Graduate Center and aired by sponors CBS - 2 television and 1010 Wins and CBS 880 radio; it was also sponsored by the New York Daily News, Common Cause New York, and the New York Immigration Coalition.
However, Hayduk acknowledged there is some dispute on that issue, which he said will be debated at a joint hearing conducted Thursday by the Council's committees on immigration and governmental operations.
Plymouth businessman Neal Forde, who is actually aged 51, has complained after David Cameron used him as a «case study» during the section of the debate which looked at immigration policy.
Mr. Paterson has shown courage and common sense at a time when the national debate about immigration shows little of either.
if he was at the wrong party's debate, pointing to his unorthodox positions on climate change and immigration.
Refinery29's original series «Behind the Headlines» takes an in - depth, human look at the policy debates dominating the global news media, from American immigration reform to the continuing struggles of Syrian refugees and Afghanistan's lingering gender inequality crisis.
After protesters turned away buses of undocumented immigrants bound for a processing center, the town now finds itself at the center of the political debate on immigration.
In other words, the highly partisan debate over Muslim immigration seems to have enhanced toleration of Muslim gatherings — at least in schools — on the part of Democrats, without having an adverse impact on tolerance among Republicans.
(Audio) «Roberto Gonzales, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, talks to WhoWhatWhy's Jeff Schechtman about the human face of the immigration debate — a debate which, in this election season, seems continually on the verge of stoking violence.»
«Since I study immigration, the ability to contribute to and inform the public debate means a lot to me at this particular moment and I'm really looking forward to learning more about how some of these issues are playing out across diverse contexts.»
The 2016 election cycle is in full swing, with candidates from all political parties at the national, state and local level campaigning and debating a variety of issues, ranging from the economy and foreign policy to immigration and the environment, among others.
But that claimed flood of Eastern Europeans was certainly at the heart of the leave campaign, and, unusually for an immigration debate, it was their right to work in the UK that was the political issue: there were too many of them, they were pushing down wages, they were keeping the low - skilled native out of work, they were costing the government a fortune in in - work benefits, they were making towns and villages unrecognisable and alienating the more established inhabitants.
While Bill C - 35 is not yet law (passed third reading in the House of Commons and on March 10, 2011 was at report presentation and debate stage in the Senate), the Governor in Council launched a public selection process which began in August 2010, to establish a new regulatory body for immigration consultants in Canada.
At the time of the shooting, lawmakers had been debating about immigration as a whole and the DACA program in particular, going so far as to shut down the government over the issue.