Sentences with phrase «of a border wall on»

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

A cornerstone of Trump's campaign platform was the construction of a border wall on the southern frontier.

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President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

Cruz says he favors building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, and would triple the number of agents on the border, as well as increase aerial surveillance.

Chitchat at Davos last January centered on Trump's controversial campaign pledges to impose a travel ban on a number of predominately Muslim countries, to upend the North American Free Trade Agreement and to build a wall at the Mexican border.

He has also proposed an outright ban on Muslims coming into the country, as well as building a wall on the border of Mexico.

Congressional Republicans have said they expect a wall to cost from $ 12 billion to $ 15 billion, based on the cost to rebuild existing border fencing covering a third of that distance.

Based on Trump's 2017 budget request for $ 2.6 billion to plan, design and build 75 miles of wall, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill's office estimated the per - mile cost would be about $ 37 million, or nearly $ 67 billion for the entire 2,000 - mile border.

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.

Estimations of how much energy a solar border wall would actually produce vary, depending on the size of the array and the wall itself.

Undocumented tech workers don't believe building a border wall is realistic, but they do fully expect Trump to follow through on many of his other, less publicized anti-immigration promises.

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.

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on immigrants — that doesn't just run counter to our history as the world's melting pot; it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe.

The first part of the promotion gave customers a chance to participate in the company's efforts to buy a section of land on the U.S. - Mexico border where President Donald Trump plans to build a wall.

Constructing a wall on the U.S. - Mexico border was one of Trump's campaign promises, along with the claims that Mexico would pay for it and that the structure would be up to 65 feet tall.

The city of Nogales in the state of Sonora on the Mexico side of the border is seen across the border wall from Nogales, Arizona on October 12, 2016.

Trump has promised to build a wall on the U.S. - Mexican border and deport massive numbers of illegal immigrants.

Trump has called for building a wall on the U.S. - Mexico border and forcing the Mexicans to pay for it, comments that have drawn the ire of people across the continent.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has promised to do quite a few things that are beyond the powers of an American president, like billing Mexico for a border wall.

«The biggest single impediment is the politics of [the border wall],» Buffett told the Arizona Daily Star, adding that he hopes his book will shed light on Americans» increasing demand for illegal narcotics as well as the short - sighted symbolism representing Trump's massive wall.

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«As the government of Mexico has always maintained, our country will not pay for, under any circumstances... a wall or physical barrier built on US territory along the Mexican border.»

For example, if President Donald Trump truly wishes to build a wall on the southern border, he'll need to acquire the capital from other areas of the government's budget.

This of course comes on the tail of Donald Trump and his call to build a wall on the US - Mexico border — and have Mexico pay for it.

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

The money for the process came from $ 20 million that Congress authorized the Department of Homeland Security to pull from other places in the budget earlier this year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing the federal government to begin construction on the border wall as soon as possible.

While he doesn't explain the exact mechanics, he argues that a portion of the economic boost from a «good deal» for the US on NAFTA could be used to fund the border wall.

On hold, if not vanished, are the revived battles of the Civil War of 150 years ago and President Donald Trump's foolhardy insistence that he will shut down the government if Congress does not authorize spending for a wall along the southern border.

Construction of the 440 - mile wall on the eastern border with Somalia began in March this year however it's only just been discovered that Israel is part of the building process.

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.

It was there, on December, 13, 1862, that a Union brigade of II Corps attacked the Confederate left, two thousand entrenched Rebels positioned behind a four - foot high stone wall bordering a narrow lane.

The new administration has made lots of promises to tighten our borders and take a harsher stance on immigration — like deporting millions of undocumented workers, building a wall along the southern border, terminating executive amnesty and tripling the number of immigration enforcement agents.

President Trump has seen criticism from those who say he underdelivered on promises to start building the US - Mexico border wall, his fake news claims are dangerous to the media and his careless use of Twitter.

Here, too, questions could be raised, but the fact is that on immigration the U.S. bishops take pretty much the position of the Wall Street Journal, which, only half tongue in cheek, calls for a constitutional amendment abolishing national borders.

Trump also committed to work with Congress to repeal and replace the health care law, to divert education funds to school - choice programs, and to stop illegal immigration by funding the construction of a wall on the Mexican border and other provisions.

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.

Abstractly, they are simply attractive organic forms, turning a blank wall into something bordering on artistic — practically, they avoid the one - size - fits all mandate of regularly - stacked shelves where each level provides an enclosed box with the same height and width as the one below it.

According to a story published on the website, OnlyNews.com, the weekend after the election, a girl's volleyball team from Archer City, TX (about 2 hours north of Dallas) was playing against a team from Fort Hancock ISD in Snyder, TX (a town on the Texas / Mexico border which happens to be 97 percent Hispanic) when students from Archer City starting chanting «Build a Wall!»

Position your fingers on the border of your areola, then push straight back into your chest wall.

Or, do a border in kids designs or paint a mural of a street scene on one or more walls.

The U.S. Senate rejected consideration of a bipartisan immigration plan that would have bolstered border security, funded a wall on the southern frontier and resolved the fate of the so - called Dreamers, after Trump and administration officials waged a fierce, daylong campaign to discredit the measure.

CNN's «New Day» co-anchor Chris Cuomo, brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, told a critic to «get woke» while denouncing Trump's border wall during a 30 - plus tweet session on Twitter this morning.

Trump again insisted on funding for his promised border wall, making clear the high hurdle faced by a bipartisan pair of senators who are backing an immigration plan that leaves out wall funding and other of his demands.

President Trump demanded in a tweet that any agreement to protect young immigrants from deportation must include his highly touted wall on the Mexican border, saying anything else is «a total waste of time.»

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.

White House officials reportedly have told key GOP leaders on Capitol Hill that President Donald Trump is open to striking a deal that would protect young immigrants from deportation in exchange for border wall funding as part of an upcoming spending bill.

The Pences will then depart for McAllen, Texas, where they will participate in a walking tour of the Hidalgo Texas Port of Entry, a roundtable discussion on immigration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a boat tour of the U.S. - Mexico border on the Rio Grande, and another walking tour along a bollardBorder Protection, a boat tour of the U.S. - Mexico border on the Rio Grande, and another walking tour along a bollardborder on the Rio Grande, and another walking tour along a bollard wall.