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.
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.
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 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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President Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that affected mostly Latino immigrants living in the United States since 1982.
Faced with this challenge, Mr Sarkozy has tried to respond with messages about checking immigration, regaining control of the country's borders (talking about a possible opt out from Europe's Schengen agreement) and dawn raids on suspected Islamic militants.
The commission, as envisioned by Roemer's bill "will have a broad mandate to investigate all relevant facts and circumstances relating to the attacks, " including issues surrounding intelligence, law enforcement, commercial aviation, diplomacy, immigration and border control, according to a statement from Roemer's office issued Friday.
On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.
The paper challenges the Scottish government to set out the cost of setting up and running a treasury, tax authority and central bank, a welfare structure, a foreign service, armed forces, an interior ministry to handle citizenship, immigration and border control, and regulators for issues including pensions, energy, telecommunications, health and safety, takeovers and advertising standards.
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