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Canada A Choice Target For Tamil Migrants : Diplomat

Canada a choice target for Tamil migrants: diplomat (Photo : Martin Collacott, Ottawa's former High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, appears on CTV's Canada AM on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010.) (Photo : Large tents have been set up at CFB Esquimalt … Continue reading

Posted in News, News Articles Prior to 2011

Peterborough ‘Under Seige’ By Migrant Camps, Locals Claim

Peterborough 'under siege' by migrant camps, locals claim Unemployed migrants have set up more than a dozen squatting camps in one city, creating pressures on local services, it was claimed. By Andrew Hough Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:30AM BST 11 Aug 2010 … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Tamil Ship With 500 Passengers Within 200 Miles Of B.C.

Tamil ship with 500 passengers within 200 miles of B.C. CTV.ca News Staff 11/08/2010 1:32:42 PM CTV News has learned that senior government sources believe Tamil Tigers organized the voyage of a cargo ship that is heading towards the B.C. … Continue reading

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Maple Ridge Prisons Prepare For 200 Tamil Refugees From Sri Lanka

Maple Ridge prisons prepare for 200 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka By Todd Coyne Vancouver Sun August 11, 2010 Two prisons in Maple Ridge have been prepared to receive an estimated 200 Tamil migrants expected to reach B.C. waters any … Continue reading

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UBC Plans Bilingual Website To Tell Story Of Chinese-Canadians

UBC plans bilingual website to tell story of Chinese-Canadians Jes Abeita Vancouver Sun August 10, 2010 A bilingual website to tell the story of Chinese-Canadians is in the planning stages at the University of B.C. The site, Chinese-Canadian Stories: Uncommon … Continue reading

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Lanka, Canada Talks

Lanka, Canada talks Tamil Daily Mirror Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:00 The Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Ottawa met with Mr. Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism of Canada and discussed mutual concerns on illegal immigration and human … Continue reading

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Should Children Born To Illegal Immigrants Automatically Become U.S. Citizens?

Should children born to illegal immigrants automatically become U.S. citizens? By Trish LaMonte The Syracuse Post-Standard, August 9, 2010 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/should_children_born_to_illega.html The United States is one of the few countries that grants citizenship to anyone born in the country, based on … Continue reading

Posted in American, News

UBC Gains $900,000 Federal Award For Unique Chinese Canadian History Web Portal

UBC gains $900,000 federal award for unique Chinese Canadian history web portal UBC Media Release Aug. 9, 2010 A bilingual website featuring the legacies of Chinese Canadians who helped shape this country will soon be a reality thanks to an … Continue reading

Posted in Chinese Immigration / Japanese Immigration, News, News Articles Prior to 2011

Women Who Escape Forced Marriages

Women who escape forced marriages Aneeta is 20 and living in fear her male relations will discover where shes staying. Her crime? To want to study instead of submitting to a forced marriage. Cyrus Shahrad reports Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:00AM BST … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Across Texas, 60,000 Babies Of NonCitizens Get U.S. Birthright

Across Texas, 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright By Sherry Jacobson The Dallas Morning News, August 8, 2010 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/ 080810dnmetbabies.2be9a7e.html As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship … Continue reading

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Students Spared Amid An Increase In Deportations

Students Spared Amid an Increase in Deportations By Julia Preston The New York Times, August 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09students.html The Obama administration, while deporting a record number of immigrants convicted of crimes, is sparing one group of illegal immigrants from expulsion: … Continue reading

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Lack Of Resources Curtails ICE Tracking Of Illegals

Lack of resources curtails ICE tracking of illegals By Jerry Seper The Associated Press, August 8, 2010 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/8/lack-of-resources-curtails-ice-tracking-illegals/ New guidance telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to focus on apprehending terrorists and criminals has many of ICE's rank-and-file agents … Continue reading

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Bogus Marriage Immigrants Vanish

Bogus marriage immigrants vanish At least 50 illegal immigrants who took part in bogus marriages conducted by shamed vicar Alex Brown have disappeared without trace, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent Telegraph.co.uk Published: 9:00PM BST … Continue reading

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Whistleblower : Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Get Away With Sham Marriages

Whistleblower: hundreds of illegal immigrants 'got away with sham marriages' A former immigration officer claims hundreds of illegal immigrants wed in sham marriages after Government officials turned a blind eye to the scandal. By Alastair Jamieson Telegraoh.co.uk Published: 11:30AM BST … Continue reading

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Hundreds Of Fitness Trainers, PR Executives And IT Workers Allowed To Work In UK

Hundreds of fitness trainers, PR executives and IT workers allow to work in UK Hundreds of fitness trainers, public relations executives and chefs from outside Europe have been allowed to work in Britain under Labour's “tough” immigration rules. By Martin … Continue reading

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Australia vs. Canada : 3 Telling Differences On The Immigration Issue

“Australia vs. Canada : 3 Telling Differences On The Immigration Issue” Three differences become evident between Australia and Canada on the immigration issue. 1. One of the biggest differences is that in the midst of the current Australian federal election, … Continue reading

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Labor And Liberals Wary Of Overseas Student Debate

Labor and Liberals wary of overseas student debate By Guy Healy and Andrew Trounson The Australian, August 6, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labor-and-liberals-wary-of-overseas-student-debate/story-fn59niix-1225902285813 Warnings from the international education sector on job losses are failing to gain political traction. The sector is worried about … Continue reading

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Abbot t To Talk To Nauru On Re-Opening Camp

Abbott to talk to Nauru on reopening camp By Yuko Narushima and Kirsty Needham The Age (Melbourne), August 6, 2010 http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/abbott-to-talk-to-nauru-on-reopening-camp-20100806-11om9.html Tony Abbott will meet the president of Nauru today to demonstrate the Coalition's resolve to reinstate the ''Pacific solution''. … Continue reading

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Farmers Say Jetstar Border Plan ‘Short-Sighted’

Farmers say Jetstar border plan 'short-sighted' The New Zealand Herald, August 6, 2010 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10664035 Budget airline Jetstar's calls to scrap immigration checks on transtasman routes have sparked biosecurity fears among an industry lobby group. Federated Farmers says Jetstar's desire to … Continue reading

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Policy Gaps Put Nation At Risk Of Resource Curse

Policy gaps put nation at risk of resource curse By Paul Cleary The Australian, August 6, 2010 To make matters worse, both major parties, and the Greens, have flagged sharp cuts to immigration, thereby creating pressure for high wages. Prime … Continue reading

Posted in Australian and Others, News