Sentence examples for strengthening border security from inspiring English sources
It is likely to placate reluctant Republicans while strengthening border security in a way that Senate Democrats still view as achievable.
The plan is another step toward assuaging the concerns of some Republicans who are reluctant to support the broader immigration overhaul, which offers a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in the country illegally, without further strengthening border security.
The congressman from this region, Representative Jerry Moran, a Republican, voted for a House bill in December that, apart from strengthening border security, would make it a felony to be an illegal immigrant or aid one.
Mr. Obama said that he favored strengthening border security and creating a pathway to citizenship, but that he was troubled by the temporary-worker system and the proposed point system.
To his supporters, Mr. Cornyn is simply trying to rescue a potentially historic immigration overhaul by offering a reasonable plan that would attract reluctant Republicans by strengthening border security before 11 million people who are in the country illegally can begin their path to citizenship.
It also signed a code of conduct aimed at reducing the risk of conflict over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.In Central Asia, China has promoted a relatively new security forum, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, aimed at strengthening border security and countering Islamic extremism (and also, some suspect, aimed at countering western influence in the region).
Under their leadership, we have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible.
It would create a 13-year path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally, strengthen border security and revamp legal immigration.
Mr. Rubio has said he hopes to further strengthen border security "triggers" during the Senate floor debate in June.
Turkey's prime minister's office issued a statement saying it had taken measures to strengthen border security.
In 2001 he co-sponsored, with Senator Edward M. Kennedy and others, a bill to strengthen border security.
