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How to use the word illegally in a Sentence? Page #9

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If you watched that debate last night, it looked like something from the early '80s. It was basically a liberal versus liberal debate about who was going to give away the most free stuff: Free college education. Free college education for people illegally in this country. Free health care. Free everything.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As we sit here, there is an apartheid wall being built twice the size of the Berlin Wall in height, keeping Palestinians off of illegally occupied territories, where the Europeans have claimed that land as their own.

Jeremiah Wright

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Those who have entered the U.S. illegally, their personal possessions and belongings too easily get lost as they are processed and travel through the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol system, the enormous amount of belongings, such as extra clothing, socks, shoes and personal items such as rosaries, Bibles, belts, underwear, toothbrushes, soap, was in many ways incomprehensible (to me), and I am certain much of this was not meant to be discarded.

Tom Kiefer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The role of a national park is not to produce cocoa, those people who are there are there illegally and we'll fight to get them out.

Adama Tondossama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government gives one month to those who illegally possess arms to hand them over, beyond this period, whoever is caught with arms will be punished.

President Pierre Nkurunziza

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We strongly condemn this assassination aimed at disturbing security in the province. We ask the population to strengthen security in their neighborhoods. We also call on those who illegally possess arms to hand them over.

Muramvya Governor Emmanuel Niyungeko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Despite the fact that we have the most generous country in the history of the world in allowing people to come here legally, we have people still coming illegally.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I hope the pope, being from a Latin American country, will kind of set the record straight that everyone here who speaks Spanish is not here illegally.

Bob Cortes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.

Ronald Reagan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The more we can eliminate legal markets in ivory, the more difficult it becomes to sell ivory illegally.

Andrew Wetzler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the Constitution required them to be citizens, anyone born on the United States, it would just say all persons born in the United States are American citizens, but the clause, 'and subject to the jurisdiction thereof', is the subject of a significant amount of legal scholarship ... Someone who comes in here illegally are not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, they're not subject to being drafted, for example, so you can change it statutorily.

Steve King

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Taking advantage of this situation, some bad elements have brought Vietnamese to work illegally in China, making it hard for the labor administration in both countries.

Pham Thu Hang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Each illegally traded horn or tusk represents not an antique object but a dead animal. Wildlife trafficking entails poaching, bribery, smuggling and organized crime.

John Cruden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Children who have not been registered at birth officially don't exist, without citizenship, children... risk marginalisation because they may be unable to access basic health and social services, obtain identity documents, and will be in danger of being trafficked or illegally adopted.

Sheldon Yett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Without citizenship, children... risk marginalisation because they may be unable to access basic health and social services, obtain identity documents, and will be in danger of being trafficked or illegally adopted.

Sheldon Yett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think a lot of people are disturbed that (ultrasound) technology is actually being used, maybe illegally, to try and harvest organs, as far as what Planned Parenthood does other than abortion, everything else they do is done by community health centers also.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We were expecting a favorable decision, they all had their money raided and stolen and dipped into illegally, and still have important claims that need to be pursued.

Merrill Davidoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are now 400,000 more signals to people all over the world that working illegally in California is encouraged by the government itself.

Roy Beck

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We've got to penalize employers who hire people who are here illegally, because the fact is that that shouldn't happen and it's exploiting American workers. But in addition to that, it's exploiting many of those people who are here illegally because they're being paid less money. So we need to make bigger fines to make sure that those employers who violate the law are being held accountable.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, defended the organization’s practices and maintained the group does not illegally sell fetal tissue. But, in a video statement [ Cecile Richards said ] … This is unacceptable, and I personally apologize for the staff member’s tone and statements.

Cecile Richards

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We've got to penalize employers who hire people who are here illegally.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hillary should spend more time producing her illegally hidden emails and less time trying to obfuscate a statement by me that is totally clear and obviously very much accepted by the public as true.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This wave of immigrants, even though they came here illegally, is just like every other group that came, they came to do jobs that people wouldn't do.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These people enter the country illegally, then obtain a driver’s license through fraud and lies, we sparked a whole criminal industry by allowing this.

Bill Rehm

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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