But groups that want tighter immigration control say that just gives amnesty to law breakers.
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Turning to Asia: Japan has been the paragon of immigration control, although the cracks are widening.
Some experts also blame lax public health procedures at immigration control for the rise in TB in developed countries.
But official figures show a large proportion of people entering the country in that period were not subject to immigration control.
This is important 'cause the greater the read distance in say, the line at airport immigration control, the greater the chance of abuse.
Even if a grand coalition holds together, it might be pushed by a vocal opposition into populist policies such as tighter immigration control.
And Mexico's foreign ministry has sharply condemned what it has called "disproportionate use of lethal force in the exercising of immigration control functions" by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
For decades passengers have been screened for arms, knives, drugs, contraband and immigration control so why are they resisting body temperature scanning which would pick up those carrying infection???
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"We estimate that thousands of children exist in the shadows of our communities, having their lives damaged by an approach that irresponsibly prioritises immigration control above the best interests of children, " he said.
In Hong Kong, the city's government Friday said it would increase body temperature checks of all arriving passengers at immigration control checkpoints, including those at airport and ferry terminals, as a precautionary measure against the spread of H7N9.
"Either we allow our population growth to continue indefinitely, with all that this will imply for our public services, our environment and our society, or we take the firm and sometimes difficult measures to bring immigration under control, " he said during a general debate on immigration on 12 December 2011.
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This time last year, we said we would listen to people's concerns and get immigration under control.
Alp Mehmet, from Migration Watch, said the figures showed "how absolutely essential it is that we bring immigration under control".
Human dignity is not synonymous with citizenship, a vitally important point in an era in which would-be immigrants are denied family unity, non-citizens are detained arbitrarily for the purposes of immigration-control and refugees are denied access to asylum.
It was to announce a series of House hearings on the Senate immigration bill this month, starting with one next week that's been titled Should we Embrace the Senate's Grant of Amnesty to Millions of Illegal Aliens and Repeat the Mistakes of the Immigration and Control Act of 1986?
Take all these actions together, and I believe we are proving that we can control immigration.
More than 1 million farmworkers applied for legalization under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
The ones who accept we can control immigration, but have doubts about what our reforms will mean.
There are those who say that whatever measures we put in place, we can't control immigration significantly.
Pete Wilson helped push the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized more than 3 million illegal immigrants.
Put simply, we will never control immigration properly unless we tackle welfare dependency.
The home secretary mocked Ms Cooper's "sudden interest in immigration and border control" and attacked the record of previous Labour governments.
Let me begin by addressing those who say we can't control immigration.
The next day will include briefings on immigration, gun control and climate change, with former Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson expected to attend.
The UK, like all countries, had a duty to control immigration, but he said it had a "great offer" to make to Indian students.
He went out of his way to mention issues which enrage those who voted against him - climate change, immigration, gun control and gay rights.
And all of this is threatened in one way or another by the threats of spiralling crime, out of control immigration, the sinister challenge of terrorism.
And there are those who accept we can control immigration, but argue that the way we propose to do it will damage our economy and universities.
But the third argument put forward by those who say we can't control immigration is that immigration is not just a problem of supply but of demand.
Then, there are skewed policy incentives: Obama has teed up initiatives such as immigration and gun control that may stymie GOP attempts to broaden its appeal to independent voters.
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