Sentences with phrase «increased border security»

Sixty - three percent said they back comprehensive immigration reform, including increased border security and a pathway to citizenship.

Shortly after meeting with Trump at the White House on Wednesday, Schumer and Pelosi announced they had reached an agreement with the president that would restore the DACA program in exchange for Democrats» support for increased border security funding.

«It is past time for Senator Schumer to use his political power in Congress as the minority leader and finally bring home a clean #DreamActNow for undocumented youth, without compromising the future of their families by funding a racist wall and increased border security measures that only tear families apart.»

Graham said a DACA solution and the GOP's desire for increased border security may come in different bills.

In the wake of a terrorist attack there are usually calls to increase border security in order to prevent the movement of terrorists into and out of the country.

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As a result, they are due to agree that the U.K. will speed up the process of asylum application for those migrants waiting at the French border and will increase contributions toward transport security.

It would significantly boost military spending and increase funding for border security, infrastructure and efforts to fight the opioid epidemic.

He added that the group sees its initiative as complementary to increased border and travel security.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern border.

The Senate had previously approved the border security bill, but when it included the visa fee increase, further House action was needed and the Senate had to act again.

The border security bill imposes a $ 2,000 fee increase on those firms that have 50 % or more of their U.S. employees on H - 1B and L - 1 visas.

Increased security at U.S. borders means that undocumented immigrants are more likely to put themselves in the hands of smugglers who are organized, ruthless and profit - driven and for whom humans are disposable commodities to be traded and used for profit.

These can be grouped into four main schools of thought on how the government should respond to the terrorist threat: secure the border, increase security, find the enemy within, and bring in the troops.

Last week, security was increased at UK ports, border controls and at London's St Pancras station, with «intensified checks on passengers, vehicles and goods coming from France».

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.

Erie County Legislators John Mills, Lynne Dixon and Kevin Hardwick, whose districts border waterfronts, along with Legislator Ted Morton, whose district includes the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, announce that the Legislature has taken the necessary steps to receive a State of New York Office of Homeland Security grant totaling $ 75,169 to increase security of the international border along the Niagara River and LaSecurity grant totaling $ 75,169 to increase security of the international border along the Niagara River and Lasecurity of the international border along the Niagara River and Lake Erie.

It will blunt Labour attacks on «Tory cuts» but also give Osborne the flexibility to make cuts where he sees fit but also to increase spending in those areas (defence, border security, prisons) where it is desperately needed and where most Conservatives would agree with it.

President Akufo - Addo and Jeremy Corbyn also discussed issues bordering on the deepening of democracy amongst member states of the Commonwealth, the worsening humanitarian crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria, United Nations Reforms, in particular reform of the UN Security Council, BREXIT, an increase in trade co-operation between Ghana and the UK, and migration.

Curated by FOR - SITE Foundation Executive Director Cheryl Haines, the thematic, site - responsive exhibition will be installed in former military structures overlooking the San Francisco Bay — some open to the public for the first time — and brings together work by 16 contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions and increasing complexity of national security, including the physical and psychological borders we create, protect, and cross in its name.

The FDA has responded to over 100 cases of Salmonella linked to papayas exported from Mexico by increasing food security at the border.

Networks, too, are critical: improving and expanding power grids, including across borders, helps ensure successful integration of higher shares of wind and solar power as well as increases energy security.

For the United States, the report contends that this could mean compromised border security, a rise in extremism in hostile nations, and could increase pressure for new and broader military interventions.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Africa has seen impressive economic growth over the last two decades and an increasing number of African governments and regional organisations are taking a leading role in addressing the security, political and poverty reduction challenges within their borders and beyond.

Obama wanted to reform the current immigration system to increase the spending on border security.

The passport card was designed to increase the speed and security at U.S. land and sea border crossings.

According to a research report by JLL, those agencies with increasing space needs include the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Defense and the Department of Veteran Affairs (V.A.).