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Trafficking Probe Nets 10 Mexican Migration Agents

Trafficking probe nets 10 Mexican migration agents The Associated Press Tuesday, March 2, 2010; 10:36 PM MEXICO CITY — Mexico's interior department says prosecutors have detained 10 Mexican immigration agents and three airline workers at Cancun's international airport on suspicion … Continue reading

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New Jail Program Targets Illegal Immigrants

New jail program targets illegal immigrants By Julie Johnson The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), March 2, 2010 http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100302/NEWS/100309896 Sonoma County this week will become the first in the Bay Area in which anyone booked into the county jail automatically … Continue reading

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House Plan Touts E-Verify

House plan touts E-Verify But migration move takes on long odds By Stephen Wall The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA), March 2, 2010 http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_14500791 A bipartisan group of Republicans and conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives has introduced … Continue reading

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Pelosi Says Abortion, Immigration Not Central To Health Bill

Pelosi says abortion, immigration not central to health bill By Jordan Fabian The Hill (Washington, DC), March 2, 2010 http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/84569-pelosi-says-abortion-immigration-not-central-to-health-bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that abortion and immigration are not central to the Democrats' healthcare reform overhaul, even … Continue reading

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Tuition Inequity Spawns Pro-Student Bill

Tuition inequity spawns pro-student bill By Chad Groening One News Now, March 2, 2010 http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=918750 A border-enforcement advocacy organization says a law introduced in Congress could go a long way in preventing states from offering discounted in-state tuition benefits to … Continue reading

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Groups That Want To Reduce Immigration Warn Of An Unsustainable Population Surge

Groups that want to reduce immigration warn of an unsustainable population surge By Luke X. Martin The Medill Reports (Northwestern Univ., March 2, 2010) http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=158880 Some national groups advocating reduced immigration contend that the United States faces unsustainable population growth, … Continue reading

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Stalled Border Security Nomination Worries Former Commissioners

Stalled border security nomination worries former commissioners By Katherine McIntire Government Executive, March 2, 2010 http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0310/030210kp1.htm A gap in leadership at the Customs and Border Protection bureau has former commissioners concerned. CBP ex-chiefs Ralph Basham and Robert Bonner and New … Continue reading

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Quebec Government Forced Woman From Classroom For Refusing To Remove Face Covering

Que. government forced woman from classroom for refusing to remove face covering By Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press Tue Mar 2, 7:36 PM MONTREAL – After months of balancing a woman's religious beliefs with her desire to learn French, the … Continue reading

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Seven Spectators To Olympics Seeking To Stay In Canada With Refugee Status

Seven spectators to Olympics seeking to stay in Canada with refugee status By: The Canadian Press 2/03/2010 6:57 AM VANCOUVER – Seven people who told officials they entered Canada as spectators to the Vancouver Winter Olympics are seeking refugee status … Continue reading

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Australians Don’t Want More People : Poll

Australians don't want more people: poll AAP (Australian Associate Press) March 1, 2010, 7:17 pm See http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/australians-dont-want-more-people-poll-20100301-pdfe.html The public has rejected plans to massively boost Australia's population. The federal government wants to increase the population from 22 million to 35 … Continue reading

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New Rights Group Head Warned Of Muslim Immigrant Threat

New rights group head warned of Muslim immigrant threat Fannie Olivier The Canadian Press Published On Mon Mar 01 2010 OTTAWAThe man chosen by the Harper government to lead the Rights and Democracy organization has publicly warned about threats posed … Continue reading

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Hockey Night In Canada–2020

Hockey Night In Canada–2020 By Tim Murray March 1, 2010 Item: Vancouver Sun journalist Pete McMartin claims, in his column of February 27, that the next Canadian Olympic team should consist of ethnic minorities in the same proportions that they … Continue reading

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Once Again, Ireland’s Young Prepare To Leave

Once again, Ireland's young prepare to leave Ireland enjoyed a boom like no other in the last 10 years, fuelled by foreign investment and runaway property speculation. But it is all over now, and the desire to emigrate, set deep … Continue reading

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Mexico’s Passport Rule In Effect Tomorrow

Mexicos passport rule in effect tomorrow Visitors staying less than 72 hours will be exempt By Sandra Dibble, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. Online: For more information about Mexicos rules for people entering the country, … Continue reading

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Minister Kenney Issues Statement On Raslan Case

Minister Kenney Issues Statement on Raslan Case By: Marketwire . Feb. 28, 2010 09:32 AM OTTAWA, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 02/28/10 — I am pleased by the decision of the Federal Court to dismiss Nasoh Raslan's appeal of a decision … Continue reading

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HIV-Positive Couple To Get New Immigration Hearing

HIV-positive couple to get new immigration hearing 'Excessive demand' on health care cited in initial rejection By Allison Cross Canwest News Service February 28, 2010 7:56 AM Comments (18) For three years, New Yorkers Ricardo Companioni and Andrew Grover have … Continue reading

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Immigration Minister Applauds Liar’s Citizenship Denial

Immigration minister applauds liar's citizenship denial By Andrew Duffy Canwest News Service February 28, 2010 OTTAWA—Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is celebrating a Federal Court ruling that denied citizenship to a Montreal man who lied about where he lived in Canada. … Continue reading

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Vancouver Sun Columnist : Team Canada "As White As Snow"

VANCOUVER SUN COLUMNIST : CANADIAN OLYMPIC TEAM “AS WHITE AS SNOW” As the 2010 Olympic Winter Games ended, Vancouver Sun columnist Pete McMartin took the immigration industry’s notion of “reflecting Canada’s Diversity” a step further. In his February 27 column, … Continue reading

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Warning Of New Asylum Backlog

Warning of new asylum backlog A new backlog of tens of thousands of asylum claims could be building up because officials are chasing targets they are not going to meet, the new immigration watchdog has warned. By Tom Whitehead The … Continue reading

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Latvian Migrants Start To Usurp Poles

Latvian migrants start to usurp Poles By James Boxell The Financial Times, February 26, 2010 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/baf3e060-2276-11df-a93d-00144feab49a.html The 'Latvian labourer' could soon usurp the Polish plumber as the most recognisable symbol of east European migration, according to Home Office figures published … Continue reading

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