Sentences with phrase «tighten immigration controls»

The acquisition would come at a sensitive time for relations between the United States and Mexico, following a pledge by U.S. President Donald Trump to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and tighten immigration controls.

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Amnesty, even in its weakest forms of non-enforcement of the law and deferred action, without corresponding action to tighten the border and control unlawful immigration, leads directly to the current human crisis as thousands of desperate children (and adults) attempt to enter the United States on the promise that the administration will take no action against them.

Theodore Hesburgh, then President of the University of Notre Dame and Chair of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, testified before Congress that the Select Commission's recommendation favoring amnesty was predicated «on one condition: that somehow the sieve that we call a border could be tightened up, that somehow we would bring our illegal immigration under contImmigration and Refugee Policy, testified before Congress that the Select Commission's recommendation favoring amnesty was predicated «on one condition: that somehow the sieve that we call a border could be tightened up, that somehow we would bring our illegal immigration under contimmigration under control.»

Hesburgh's words: «somehow the sieve that we call a border [must] be tightened up... somehow we [we need to] bring our illegal immigration under control.»

As Geddes (2006: 166) has noted, security oriented approaches towards immigration at the EU - level pushed southern European countries to increasingly tighten external border controls.

Polls have tightened in recent weeks as the leave camp has begun to ramp up its warnings that immigration can only be controlled from outside the EU and has made personal attacks on Cameron's character, a message that may appeal to traditional Labour voters who want to punish the prime minister.

Then the 2015 election became the first where Labour featured the tightening of immigration controls as one of its top five pledges — with pledge cards and campaign mugs to underline the commitment.