Sentences with phrase «make immigration reform»

The impending midterm elections make immigration reform unlikely — no matter what President Obama says.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who has made immigration reforms a priority during her time in office, has said she believes the funding should be available to anyone who needs it — regardless of whether they are suspected of committing a crime.

Not exact matches

It was O'Malley who made the strongest pitch to tackle immigration reform and to find a path forward to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., though he was short on details.

He then gave a passionate victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and promised to waste no time making the national economy a much more business - friendlyplace, with controversial labour - market, pension, education and constitutional reforms, not to mention tougher measures on crime and immigration.

In early 2013, there was hope Congress would make progress on two other issues that small - business owners care about: immigration and tax reform.

If Congress had enacted the immigration reform bill that the Senate passed in 2013 — or other bills that had made progress in the House — that would have raised the annual H - 1B cap to 115,000 right away (and up to 180,000 over time).

But as ever with our legislators, politics seems to be trumping sound decision making, and this less - controversial idea is thoroughly tied up with more contentious questions around immigration reform and general partisan bickering.

I'm happy to see the progress made in Washington just this past week on immigration reform.

But enough noise leaked out from behind the closed doors to make clear what was happening, and it was this: the «long, slow death» that hardline Republicans promised for immigration reform has begun.

FWD.us, which is the tech industry's group that lobbies for comprehensive immigration reform, has also made DACA a main focus.

Zuckerberg, who has been making political headlines with his political advocacy group, FWD.us, has been lobbying members of Congress to push for comprehensive immigration reform.

Besides showing what a private person Powell Jobs is, the story illustrates what makes her such a powerful advocate for education and immigration reforms.

Sufficient public pressure could push some elected officials to supporting better immigration reform, but public opinion would have to strongly favor better reform and probably make itself felt in elections.

Hispanics — a group widely associated with immigration reform — make up nearly 40 percent of Catholic Church.

Religious leaders that attended the meeting said the president spent more than an hour with them, and after making a few remarks at the top of the meeting he let each group discuss their priorities and problems with comprehensive immigration reform.

During the discussion, these faith leaders said, Obama made it clear that he wanted to see a bill on immigration reform in the next 60 days.

The public and politic case for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration (under the label «comprehensive immigration reform») was made by the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» of the 2012 election.

• We urge our nation's leaders to work together with the American people to pass immigration reform that embodies these key principles and that will make our nation proud.

Current immigration reform legislation already looked likely to founder over provisions that conservatives insisted on to make our borders secure.

President Obama is set to deliver an immigration reform speech this morning; Mayor Bloomberg, who has also made that a focus, will be in the audience.

I look forward to returning to Washington so I can continue making this vision a reality by fighting for better jobs, affordable housing, and real reforms to our immigration laws.»

Whether it's her outspoken support for sensible gun legislation to help make our streets safer or her advocacy for common sense immigration reform, Grace embodies the values that Queens» residents care about most.

Moreover, the failure of immigration reform on the federal level made the issue all the more pressing locally.

Congressional leaders are once again considering immigration reform, and some upstate representatives want to make sure they take farmers into consideration.

However, Latino voters might have made up their minds in 2011, when Mitt Romney stated he would veto the DREAM Act, but his reluctance during the second presidential debate to provide specifics on an alternative approach on immigration reform could have sealed the deal for most Latinos.

President Trump, speaking to a group of Hispanic business owners on Wednesday, touted his tax cuts, made a pitch for immigration reform and slammed Democrats for not doing more to...

The immigration bill in the Senate — we clearly need comprehensive immigration reform to secure our borders and to make sure that farmers have workers that they need — he opposes it.

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.»

Washington (CNN)- House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday rebuked Iowa GOP colleague Rep Steve King for controversial comments on undocumented immigrants, calling the remarks «deeply offensive and wrong,» and acknowledged the fallout makes it harder to reach a deal on immigration reform.

Mark - Viverito said she sought to make the Council more equitable and function as more of a collective body during her tenure, with a commitment to immigration and criminal justice reform.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has made headlines recently as an outspoken member of the Tea Party who opposed immigration reform and Hurricane Sandy aid.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

He said he believed Clinton is the best person to tackle issues such as raising the minimum wage, make college more affordable, create good - paying infrastructure jobs, tackle climate change, immigration reform and revamping the criminal justice system.

«I made a lot of promises to my constituents and I want to keep those promises on immigration, on the deficit, on political reform.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, said last week he will make passing a comprehensive immigration bill a priority once the Senate completes its work on a Wall Street reform bill.

Commentators are pointing out that immigration reform appears to have strong support in Virginia's seventh district, and pro-reform politicians are trying to spin the issue differently — Cantor lost touch with his constituents; Cantor failed to embrace immigration reform wholeheartedly enough — but most commentators clearly feel that Cantor's defeat makes immigration radioactive for Republicans.

Making matters infinitely worse, the Birdman director then made a plea for immigration reform in his acceptance speech.

DVD Extras: Directors» commentary, «Behind The Scenes» documentary, «How to Make Empanadas» featurette, PSA on immigration reform, «Still Standing» - A Short Film by Paola Mendoza, and a theatrical trailer.

So while conservatives in the Alabama legislature weren't able to make any great strides in area of education reform, they were able to prevent the teeth from being stripped out of one of the great accomplishments Alabama has — our immigration law.

Graham said he would bail after majority leader Harry Reid made a statement saying that immigration reform would come before climate on the Senate agenda — and the move has the green blogosphere ablaze with analysis and accusations.

In addition, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 makes it a violation to discriminate against a worker or applicant based on his / her citizenship or immigratImmigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 makes it a violation to discriminate against a worker or applicant based on his / her citizenship or immigrationimmigration status.

Visible minority communities do have cause for concern given historic statements about immigration reform made by the current Prime Minister regarding multiculturalism before he was in office.