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SECNAV Del Toro Says Changes to Immigration Law, Policy Could Help with Shipyard Workforce Shortage
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro interacts with a sailor aboard the Ticonderoga-course guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63) through a pay a visit to on Feb. 15, 2023. US Navy Image ARLINGTON, Va. – Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro suggested adjustments in immigration rules and policies for visas could open a new avenue to develop up the workforce in the nation’s public and non-public shipyards. “We want to do a great deal additional to get the variety of employees we need in our shipyards,” he advised attendees at a National Defense Industrial Affiliation Expeditionary Warfare convention past week. Del Toro, using his very own family members as an case in…
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Should Christians Support Tougher Immigration Laws?
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Jim DavisWelcome to TGC good faith debates. This is a series of conversations designed to help you learn about and engage in issues of contemporary life and culture that might be confusing might be challenging and might even be divisive or polarizing. My name is Jim Davis. I’m Pastor of Orlando Grace Church. And it is a privilege to be able to moderate these debates today. The topic is immigration. Immigration is obviously a charged issue. It is a political issue. But it’s also a gospel issue. So…
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DeSantis picks fight over immigration law backed by his LG, Scott
Hello and welcome to Friday. Check the clock — That was then. This is now. Five years ago — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis first campaigned for governor touting a hard line on immigration. On the radar— When he picked Jeanette Nuñez as his lieutenant governor back in 2018, the question even back then was whether DeSantis would target one of her big legislative wins: a law that guaranteed in-state tuition rates for undocumented children of migrants if they had attended a Florida high school for three years. It was a measure that was opposed by some Republicans at the time but passed after a strong push by both then-House Speaker…
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DeSantis criticizes ‘inadequate’ immigration law he signed, calls for new changes
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday revived a push to adopt a lot more stringent selecting protocols to avert the work of migrants not able to legally get the job done in the state, acknowledging that a condition regulation he championed in the course of his very first term in office has been ineffective. Florida law presently calls for all governing administration companies and their contractors to use a federal digital process, recognized as E-Verify, to examine the immigration position of new hires. DeSantis desires the mandate to be expanded to incorporate all personal companies in the state, indicating the present regulation was a “compromise” attained by the Legislature…
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DeSantis blasts immigration laws once popular with Florida Republicans
Integrated in DeSantis’ proposal is the repeal of a 2014 law sponsored by Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez when she was a member of the Florida Residence that offered out-of-condition tuition vouchers to some qualified Dreamers, individuals brought to the United States illegally at a younger age. It applied to Dreamers who attended a Florida high university for at minimum a few a long time. The proposal acquired extensive-ranging Republican aid at the time, including from CFO Jimmy Patronis, DeSantis-appointed Instruction Commissioner Manny Diaz, former House Speaker Jose Oliva — whom DeSantis not long ago appointed to the Board of Governors of the Condition College Method — and Agriculture Commissioner Wilton…
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Texas reps offer hope for immigration reform in divided Congress
WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy’s drawn out fight to become U.S. Household speaker past thirty day period was a indicator to a lot of of the dysfunction to occur from a freshly divided Congress. But for Home centrists, it can be a different tale. Numerous see an chance in excess of the upcoming two several years, where just a handful of customers from both party can decide the destiny of important legislation. Now they are eyeing major swings at thorny issues like immigration and vitality reform, and a trio of Texans symbolizing border districts are appropriate in the mix. IN-DEPTH: Un-Christian, Un-American? Texas showdown in excess of immigration has GOP neighbors…
