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Finnish Minister Would Give Free Citizenship To War Children

Finnish minister would give free citizenship to war children /STT/ 5.12.2007 at 16:39 Astrid Thors, the Finnish immigration minister, said Wednesday that the war children, Finnish infants evacuated to other Nordic countries during the second world war, should be granted … Continue reading

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UK Bars Unskilled Migrant Workers From Outside EU

U.K. Bars Unskilled Migrant Workers From Outside EU (Update2) By Kitty Donaldson Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — Unskilled migrants from countries outside the European Union will no longer be eligible to work in the U.K., barring thousands of potential newcomers from … Continue reading

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ICE Sees Surge In Arrests Of Fugitive Immigrants

ICE sees surge in arrests of fugitive immigrants By Vanessa Bauza Chicago Tribune staff reporter December 5, 2007 Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they arrested about twice as many immigrants who ignored deportation orders during fiscal year 2007 as they … Continue reading

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U.S. Gets Tougher On Illegal Hiring

U.S. gets tougher on illegal hiring Homeland Security Department plans to appeal a federal judge's ruling that blocked efforts to target workers with inconsistent Social Security data. By Nicole Gaouette, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 5, 2007 WASHINGTON — … Continue reading

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Democrats Confron Immigration In Debate

Democrats Confront Immigration in Debate The Democratic contenders, meeting in a radio debate, were asked Tuesday whether citizens should turn in someone they know to be an illegal immigrant. By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY The New York Times Published: … Continue reading

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More Foreign Students At U.S. Schools

More Foreign Students at U.S. Schools By JULIANA BARBASSA Associated Press Writer 4:56 PM EST, December 5, 2007 BERKELEY, Calif. – The number of international students attending American colleges and universities has nearly rebounded from a slump that followed the … Continue reading

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Agency Certifies Temporary Employees For Companies

Agency certifies temporary employees for companies Silver Spring company checks immigrants status by Kevin J. Shay Staff Writer Gazette.net Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007 In the face of a report released last week that shows illegal immigration continuing to grow, a … Continue reading

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French Still An Abstraction In Much Of Canada

French still an abstraction in much of Canada Chantal Hert (Hebert) TheStar.com Dec 05, 2007 04:30 AM OTTAWA—Connect the dots between the 2006 census numbers on language and immigration released yesterday and what you get is an increasingly diverse French … Continue reading

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A Minority On The Island

A minority on the island Proportion of francophones is now 49.8% because of more immigrants, low birth rate ANDY RIGA, The Gazette Published: Wednesday, December 05 Francophones are now a minority on Montreal Island. It's a symbolic change, but does … Continue reading

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Ministry, School Board In Conflict Over Refugees

Ministry, school board in conflict over refugees Cut-off date for students leaves district short of funds Jennifer Moreau, Burnaby Now Published: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 The Ministry of Education shot down a call from the B.C. School Trustees Association to … Continue reading

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More Quebec Immigrants Speaking French At Home

COUNTING CANADIANS: GOOD NEWS FOR OFFICIAL BILINGUALISM More Quebec immigrants speaking French at home But statistics show that among young native-born French speakers, English is seen as a language of commercial opportunity RHAL SGUIN The Globe and Mail December 5, … Continue reading

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Republic of Ireland Launches New Automated Fingerprint Identification System

Republic of Ireland launches new automated Fingerprint Identification System PublicTechnology.net 4 Dec 2007 – 07:30 am The Republic of Ireland has launched the first phase of its new Automated Fingerprint Identification System for An Garda Siochana and the Irish Naturalisation … Continue reading

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Asylum Rules To Follow EU Directive

Asylum rules to follow EU directive By Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent The Irish Examiner 04 December 2007 IRELAND rules for processing and granting asylum will come into line with the rest of the EU once the draft Immigration, Residence and … Continue reading

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Nurses Told To Turn Beds To Mecca

NURSES TOLD TO TURN MUSLIMS BEDS TO MECCA Tuesday December 4,2007 Paul Jeeves Express.co.uk OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients beds so they face towards Mecca. The lengthy … Continue reading

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Proposals Would Put Limits On Citizenship For Newborns

Proposals would put limits on citizenship for newborns Measures appear to be aimed at babies of illegal entrants By Paul Davenport The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.04.2007 PHOENIX– Arizona voters may be asked to decide whether to prohibit the … Continue reading

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Canada’s Foreign-Born Population At 75-Year Peak

Canada's foreign-born population at 75-year peak Reuters Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:49 PM EST OTTAWA (Reuters) – One in five people in Canada last year was born in another country, the highest proportion since the 1930s, according to a census … Continue reading

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Asia, Mideast Immigrants Take Lead In Canada: Census

Asia, Mideast immigrants take lead in Canada: census AFP December 4, 2007 OTTAWA (AFP) Asians and Mideasterners made up the largest number of immigrants to Canada from 2001 to 2006, taking to one-fifth the proportion of Canadians whose mother tongue … Continue reading

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86% Of Immigrants Go To Three Provinces

86% of immigrants go to three provinces CanWest News Service December 4, 2007 By and large, immigrants choose the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia as their new homes, according to a report on immigration made public by Statistics … Continue reading

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Environment Report Says Urban Sprawl Strangling Southern Ontario

Environment report says urban sprawl strangling southern Ontario The Canadian Press Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 The governing Liberals must have a new vision for Ontario's north and crack down on urban sprawl in the south by cutting down … Continue reading

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Flood Of Mexicans Delays Other Refuge-Seekers

Flood of Mexicans delays other refuge-seekers GLORIA GALLOWAY From Tuesday's Globe and Mail December 4, 2007 at 4:10 AM EST OTTAWA The backlog of cases waiting to be heard by the federal Immigration and Refugee Board is ballooning, but Mexicans … Continue reading

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