Sentences with phrase «of legal immigrants»
He says he feels this bill matters because 68 percent of his district is composed of legal immigrants who are currently not eligible to vote.
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It would have held constant the total number of legal immigrants by eliminating another visa program that grants permanent residency to 50,000 applicants a year on the basis of a lottery.
Trump supports legislation that would reduce the annual number of legal immigrants by 50 % over 10 years.
Specialized surveys were taken in 2001 and 2002 of Hispanics and Asians, using Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese for the interviews, and one careful, random - sample survey, asking about religion among other things, was conducted in 1967 and 1998 based on INS records of legal immigrants in 1996.
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The harsh laws have been coupled with harsh enforcement; the Obama administration has arrested and deported tens of thousands of legal immigrants with a zeal that has gone to extremes.
«They stood in line and respected the rule of law,» the chairman said of legal immigrants.
«New York's Ellis Island welcomed and processed almost 40 percent of the legal immigrants that have come to America.
«Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are — and I quote — worth less than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race.
Consequently, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) proposed an alternate version of the bill (Attracting the Best and Brightest Act; H.R. 6412), in which the diversity visa lottery program is retained, thereby increasing the total number of legal immigrants to the United States each year.
The bill would have held the total number of legal immigrants to the United States constant by also eliminating a current program that grants 55,000 visas based on a lottery of applicants (known as diversity visas).