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White House press secretary Sean Spicer then followed this up with comments suggesting that the Trump administration is considering a 20 % tax on imports, starting with Mexico, that would help finance the building of a border wall between the US and Mexico.

Not exact matches

Between the wall on the U.S. - Mexico border and the status of the undocumented young people who were brought to the country as children (known as Dreamers), immigration has been a major policy issue for the Trump administration.

In the case of Mexico, Trump has simultaneously gone after trade and immigration, promising to not only build a wall at the southern border of the U.S. but also to scrap and renegotiate NAFTA, the agreement governing trade between the countries.

The crisis — spurred largely by Syria's civil war — has caused numerous political spats, leading to the construction of walls around certain countries and the closing of borders between others.

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

The initial Mexican offer of aid for Texas may have raised hopes of a thaw between the Mexican government and the Trump administration, which have been battling over Trump's promise to make Mexico pay for his proposed border wall.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

Despite presidential candidates» talk of building walls between the United States and Mexico, the economies of Texas border towns such as Brownsville have never been based solely on companies and consumers on only one side of the border.

Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between the president and Democrats over his border wall.

Trump's threat of a government shutdown if Congress doesn't agree to fund a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico sent GOP congressional leaders into damage control mode and stocks tumbling.

At the same time, Cuomo outlined the differences between Democrats and Republicans more broadly, returning once again to the theme of Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and the symbolism of the new Tappan Zee Bridge construction.

With tensions between the U.S. and Mexico rising, the White House appeared to endorse a 20 percent tax on all Mexican imports as a means of raising revenue to build a border wall, only to insist hours later that it had not.

The outreach comes at a time of strained relations between the administration of President Donald Trump and Mexican authorities over the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, immigration policies and Trump's pledge to erect a wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico.

The movie cuts between these two facets of the same world to present a unified portrait of lives under siege, cutting between interviews with the two men, harrowing portraits of the violent forces in their lives (especially on the Mexican side of the border) and fly - on - the - wall representations of the main figures on the job.

As Donald Trump continues to talk about the problems with illegal immigration and boast of how he'll erect an impassable wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, a film that shows the reality of life along that border is hitting theaters.

The nearby town of Kristianopel is also worth a visit and makes a great day trip from Karlskrona, where you can still see the old city wall that used to provide a fortified border between Sweden and Denmark.

Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.

The work, a glass wall that holds a mixture of lithographs and photographs of flowers and stretches 4 meters high and 34 meters long, acts as a soft border or barrier between those who arrive... Read more

«Unbuilding Walls» — the German Pavilion exhibition at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by GRAFT and Marianne Birthler, presents four exemplary projects for sites located on the former border strip between West and East Germany

«Unbuilding Walls» - the German Pavilion exhibition at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by GRAFT and Marianne Birthler, presents four exemplary projects for sites located on the former border strip between West and East Germany

In the year 2000 there was a total of fifteen fortified border walls and fences between sovereign nations.

In the rapidly changing and gentrifying neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Martinez finds connections between the precarious foundations of home for families targeted by immigration policies and speculative real estate markets, and the physical signifiers of forced displacement and exclusion such as «gentrification fences» and border walls.

Top of mind in California is the treacherous, arid, and heavily policed land between the United States and Mexico, with Trump's insistence on building a border wall and recent pardoning of brutalist Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Within the context of the punk movement, Raymond Pettibon and Mike Kelley were inspired by comics through wall - length drawings that made use of the narrative element of comics on the border between visual art and literature.