Sentence examples for passed a border from inspiring English sources

Last month, the House of Representatives passed a border enforcement and immigration bill that included an amendment to abolish the Green Card Lottery.

In December, the House defied Mr. Bush's call for a guest worker program and passed a border security bill that would criminalize illegal immigrants' presence in the country.

Shortly before 1070 passed, a border rancher named Robert Krentz was murdered on his own property; the killer hasn't been identified, but the murder became a rallying point for enforcement activists.

House conservatives, who passed a border security bill in December, vowed to thwart any deal that includes a central provision of the Senate bill: its call to give most illegal immigrants a chance to become citizens if they meet certain conditions.

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's president, who was the chairwoman of Petrobras at the time, has spent much of the year batting away questions about the deal.Dog daysAmerica's Congress broke up for the summer, but not before Republicans in the House passed a border-security measure that would increase deportations of recent Central American migrants.

The last time a Republican Congress passed a border-only immigration bill, Latinos protested in the streets, helping Democrats regain control of both chambers in the 2006 election.

"I thought smuggling was when you pass a border and when you take money or benefit from it – not driving inside the country," she said.

"For me," she added, "a true digital market is a market where effective competition ensures that citizens, customers and businesses do not experience substantially different services or costs when they pass a border".

Why can the House not even pass a border control bill?

The Senate has passed a bill tightening border security and creating a pathway to citizenship for millions already in the country illegally, but Republicans have bottled it up in the House.

But in this case, Congress hasn't passed a law creating a border wall — let alone set aside money to pay for it.