Sentences with phrase «immigration issues at»

MAHA President, Migdalia I. Nalls, spoke about the importance of taking a position on immigration issues at this critical time.

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Boehner said he would continue to talk with the Republican caucus in the House about immigration reform, but he laid the blame at President Obama's feet, suggesting the issue was one of trust.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

(He also actively pursues issues relating to immigration policies, food security, safe water for First Nations, species at risk, the plastics problem, healthy living — the list goes on.)

Mazin Sidahmed, co-founding editor and senior reporter at Documented, a Civil - network site covering immigration and national security issues in New York City, says Civil has provided extensive support, including a financial grant, as well as as the technology on which to build the site and assistance with design.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

Third, there are very real legal issues with marriage, including immigration (marrying hundreds of people at a time would now be legal), custody, property law... all of which would suddenly be plunged into previously unexplored territory.

Discussions of immigration often oversimplify or distort the moral issues at stake.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

At government level, the whole issue of asylum is a sensitive one, and being seen as being soft on immigration in any form is never going to be a votewinner.

But nationalism and cultural issues were more important: irritation at a loss of sovereignty to Brussels; worries about the effects of mass immigration; resentment of a cosmopolitan elite that demeans local ways; a creeping sense of social disorder, epitomized by recent satires like Martin Amis's 2012 novel Lionel Asbo: State of England.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

A plan that looks at the underlying issues that emerge in these conversations on immigration: the legacies of de-industrialisation, the absence of affordable housing, increasing job insecurity and zero hour work, and the impacts of neoliberalism on the national institutions that make up our shared identity.

«We believe that the Conservatives at the next election need to be seen to be taking on the big, difficult issues facing society and not be distracted by the Ukip agenda of Europe and immigration.»

Given Turkey's predominantly Muslim population and its geographic location, the EU does not want to risk an influx of Muslim immigrants, simply put Turkey's accession would open a backdoor to Europe for immigrants from Arabic and African countries, at a time when immigration is an extremely hot issue in European countries and several countries have recently implemented anti-immigration laws that would seem extreme and unjustified a decade ago.

Quizzed on the issue of immigration at Prime Minister's Questions this week May insisted that immigration depressed wages and affected the poorest in society hardest.

Such political values are rarely visible at election time, when people are, for the most part, motivated by the same issues (in 2010: economy, immigration, budget deficit) irrespective of what religion they affiliate with or attend.

The county executive notes that both he and Reagan became Republicans at the age of 50, and said the issue of «illegal immigration» was «the final straw» that pushed him to jump the Democratic ship.

Populus and Team Ashcroft and commenters at The Times (for whom Populus poll) have agreed for a long time that the Tory strategy must avoid mentions of immigration and other core vote issues and focus on «detoxification».

I'm biased and not a bystander in this project (as ConservativeHome has noted) but a new parliamentary group has been established to help the Conservative Party becomes at least as fluent and thoughtful about a one nation agenda as it is about immigration, defence, tax or other «traditional» Tory issues.

At the same time, a Siena College poll this week found more voters, 46 percent, view Cuomo as liberal — a designation that comes as the governor has opened up blistering critiques of President Donald Trump on issues like immigration and gun control.

At 5:30 p.m., Assemblywoman Diana Richardson hosts an event to teach attendees ways to address issues concerning immigration and ways to receive free public assistance, 250 Kingston Ave., Brooklyn.

At the same time, immigration and Europe have grown in salience (partly, no doubt, because the Conservatives spend so much time talking about them) but the Tories» lead on those issues has dropped (partly, no doubt, because they seem unable to do very much about them).

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn), the only black female New York congressional lawmaker, told Observer that she was motivated by issues at the federal level which affect her community, including comprehensive immigration reform and minority - and women - owned businesses.

«For decades, 1199SEIU has been at the forefront, fighting for the issues that matter most to New Yorkers: affordable healthcare, raising the minimum wage, paid family leave, and immigration reform.

As former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis argued so powerfully in yesterday's Mail, it would greatly strengthen Britain's hand at the negotiating table if our Prime Minister could claim a popular mandate for opt - outs on such issues as justice, asylum, immigration and human rights.

Pregnant women and those with serious mental health issues are being wrongly detained at an immigration removal centre, inspectors say.

At issue is not just the shutdown, but legislative battles earlier this year, such as the stymied attempt at immigration reforAt issue is not just the shutdown, but legislative battles earlier this year, such as the stymied attempt at immigration reforat immigration reform.

My union — the Public and Commercial Services Union — has been clear from the outset: we opposed the Immigration Act 2014, and many of our members were appalled at the «hostile environment» created by then home secretary Theresa May as she sought to make political capital out of the sensitive issue of iImmigration Act 2014, and many of our members were appalled at the «hostile environment» created by then home secretary Theresa May as she sought to make political capital out of the sensitive issue of immigrationimmigration.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> «More than 600 people have signed up to attend a town hall - style event Friday at a local elementary school, hoping to hear U.S. Rep. John Faso speak about the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform and other current issues.

Previewing his campaign before an election night audience Tuesday, Suozzi said, «People have been screaming at each other for 30 years on issues like gun control, immigration, and climate change.

The shadow home secretary claimed the Tories have been «disgraceful» on the issue of immigration in a speech at the Labour party's conference in Brighton on Sunday.

At 1 p.m. Wednesday, an «all - in - one» resource clinic providing access to free, comprehensive services addressing aging, disability, immigration, personal finance, and transportation issues will launch at Brooklyn Borough HalAt 1 p.m. Wednesday, an «all - in - one» resource clinic providing access to free, comprehensive services addressing aging, disability, immigration, personal finance, and transportation issues will launch at Brooklyn Borough Halat Brooklyn Borough Hall.

In March, home affairs ministers from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland met at the German resort of Heiligendamm, where they discussed the key issues of terrorism, integration and illegal immigration, and drugs and organised crime.

At a closed meeting with GOP colleagues, reported by Poltico.com, McCarthy said resolution of the immigration issue could threaten the GOP's hold on the chamber.

The issue of illegal immigration dogged the government this week after it emerged five illegal migrants from Nigeria had worked as cleaners at the Home Office for three years, contrary to initial claims that they were nabbed on their first day.

Cuomo knocked Trump on the immigration issue as Republicans introduce a bill aimed at slashing legal levels of immigrants coming to the U.S.

At 6 p.m., Sen. Liz Krueger will host a conversation with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, discussing his work to challenge Trump Administration policies on a host of issues from immigration to the environment to civil and voting rights.

At 6:30 p.m., Rep. Hakeem Jeffries delivers annual State of the District address, discussing issues including affordable housing, community safety, job creation, and immigration reform, Long Island University, 1 University Pl., Brookyln.

Also at 10 a.m., there's a federal court hearing on the temporary restraining order issued on Trump's first immigration - related executive order, Eastern District, 225 Cadman Plaza, Courtroom 10D, Brooklyn.

After refusing to address the issue properly at the General Election and making this speech at a time of increasing electoral vulnerability for the Conservatives, Mr Cameron does look like he's ripped up his own rulebook on how to deal with the issue of immigration.

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.

Cable used the Guardian - hosted event, which looked at the issues surrounding immigration, to tear into policies which, he claimed, had been imposed on his government by his Conservative coalition partners.

Immigration, Obamacare, travel restrictions to Cuba, and, of course, Donald Trump were some of the issues discussed by incumbent Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin and his Democratic opponent, former Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne Holst, at a candidate forum sponsored by the North Fork, Riverhead and Mattituck chambers of commerce.

Andrew Neil looks at the campaign issues, where he attends the UKIP press conference and asks about immigration.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico who has built a broader profile in part by focusing on immigration reform issues nationwide and in the city, said the policy would target women and children who were fleeing «horrific violence» at home.

Mark Harper, a Home Office minister, said no vouchers had been issued purely for winning cases at the immigration tribunals as several factors are taken into consideration.

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.

We therefore believe that if the government is to get to grips with immigration abuse, it must re-introduce a mandatory interview with an entry clearance officer at overseas Consulates in countries of concern to ensure the genuine nature of the marriage before a visa is issued.

Tory Defectors in seats we are defending against the Lib Dems have doubts about the party's competence, clarity and values — whereas UKIP voters really are for «none of the above», disliking all three parties, and being interested only in immigration, Europe and defence — though as I found in my previous research, most of those who are attracted to UKIP are not motivated by policy issues at all.