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a hard-line approach to the sentencing of repeat offenders
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Former President Donald Trump leaned into his hard-line immigration stance during a Latino roundtable discussion in Florida on Tuesday, underscoring his strategy of winning the 2024 election on border security.
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Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Oct. 2024
The suggestion was that by doing so the Center for Immigration Studies would give liberals reason to support hard-line immigration controls and perhaps also offer conservatives an avenue to fold global warming into their narratives of a country under assault.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
Or will Netanyahu intensify military operations and fight ahead, vindicated — in his view — that his hard-line and uncompromising offensive has proved to be the correct strategy?
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol responded with his own hard-line vision of regime change and absorbing North Korea.
—Christine Ahn, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
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Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Oct. 2024
The suggestion was that by doing so the Center for Immigration Studies would give liberals reason to support hard-line immigration controls and perhaps also offer conservatives an avenue to fold global warming into their narratives of a country under assault.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
Or will Netanyahu intensify military operations and fight ahead, vindicated — in his view — that his hard-line and uncompromising offensive has proved to be the correct strategy?
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol responded with his own hard-line vision of regime change and absorbing North Korea.
—Christine Ahn, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Hard-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-line. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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