Sentence examples for enhanced border security from inspiring English sources
This week, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, abruptly announced that the Senate would take up an immigration bill to address both enhanced border security and citizenship, even in the face of daunting odds.
In particular, Democrats are eager to balance support for enhanced border security with an approach that they can contrast to the policies championed by many Republicans, starting with Arizona's new law that gives police a greater role in immigration enforcement.
Plenty of Democrats worry too; hence their pro forma support for enhanced border security and their anxiety to stress that any "pathway to citizenship" is not, despite the accusation of conservative Republicans, another way of saying "amnesty".
Talking to a colleague on the Senate floor, according to an aide, Mr. Graham, an Air Force reservist, noted the enhanced border security measures, explaining, "This is the equivalent of adding three or four regiments to the border".
One of the chief architects of that bill was Marco Rubio, who labored for months to put together a bipartisan coalition and forge a workable compromise that included the Democratic priority, of a path to citizenship for most undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and the Republican priority, of enhanced border security to keep new waves of undocumented immigrants out of the country.
He said that Congress should pass "comprehensive immigration reform," a phrase that has a specific meaning in the context of the legislative debates over immigration: a bill that includes enhanced border security, new temporary-worker programs, and — most controversially — a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants already in the United States.
The new fence that Israel is constructing along its border with Egypt, coupled with enhanced border-security measures, seems to be working.
Jobs, border security, veterans.
Mr Giuliani emphasises border security.
One of our principles is border security.
