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Crackdown Planned For Foreign Worker Program

Crackdown planned for foreign worker program Star investigations Fears of visa, work permit fraud prompting Ottawa to tighten up on its landed immigrant system Nicholas Keung IMMIGRATION REPORTER Comments on this story [] (17) May 24, 2009 04:30 AM Ottawa … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrants Flood In Via Greece

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLOOD IN VIA GREECE Sunday Express Thursday May 14,2009 STANDING on Europes south-eastern frontier, Greece[] has become a vital stepping stone on the illegal immigration route to Britain. Every year more than 100,000 migrants from Asia, the Middle … Continue reading

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Court Finds Rwandan Guilty Of War Crimes

Court finds Rwandan guilty of war crimes With conviction in 1994 genocide, Canada begins to live up to international legal system it helped create LES PERREAUX MONTREAL From Saturday's Globe and Mail Saturday, May. 23, 2009 03:27AM EDT Canada moved … Continue reading

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Hallway Culture Clash

Hallway culture clash In a Toronto apartment building, a feud has broken out over a neighbourly 'hello.' What hath multiculturalism wrought? Matthew Coutts National Post Published: Friday, May 22, 2009 In trying to adapt to a patchwork of often conflicting … Continue reading

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Scotland : Migrant Numbers More Than Double

Scotland – Migrant numbers more than double News | Published in The TES on 22 May, 2009 Schools are struggling to cope with the recent influx of migrant pupils and need more help, according to unpublished findings by the schools … Continue reading

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Job Seekers With Asian Names Face Discrimination

Job seekers with Asian names face discrimination Canadians with English names are called back more often for job interviews, UBC study finds David Karp Vancouver Sun Published: Thursday, May 21, 2009 Canadians with Asian names face a daunting level of … Continue reading

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Obama: Check More Immigration Status Of Inmates

Obama: Check more immigration status of inmates By Spencer S. Hsu The Washington Post, May 19, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/18/AR2009051803172.html?sub=AR Washington, DC — The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status … Continue reading

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Immigrants’ Children Might Get Help From DREAM Act

Immigrants' children might get help from DREAM Act By Vctor Manuel Ramos The Orlando Sentinel (FL), May 19, 2009 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-young-immigrants-dream-act-051809,0,3373504.story Walter Lara is a scared 3-year-old, crouching with his mother under a stopped train. She holds him close and whispers … Continue reading

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Hispanic Voters A Growing Group In U.S.

Hispanic voters a growing group in U.S. Hispanic voters have immigration reform on their minds as they expand their voting power, a poll showed. By Trenton Daniel The Miami Herald (FL), May 19, 2009 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1055523.html The country's Hispanic voting population … Continue reading

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Napolitano Appears To Straddle Political Divide

Napolitano Appears to Straddle Political Divide By Ginger Thompson The New York Times, May 19, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/us/politics/19napolitano.html?ref=us Washington, DC — The day before she mounted her first campaign for public office, Janet Napolitano, then a federal prosecutor, held a news … Continue reading

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Immigration Conviction Of Union Official Reversed

Immigration conviction of union official reversed By Tony Leys The Des Moines Register, May 19, 2009 http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090519/NEWS/905190370/1001/NEWS A Marshalltown union official who was convicted of helping illegal immigrants has won an appeal of the case and probably will not be … Continue reading

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Officials Draft Changes To Bush-Era Mandate On ID Cards

Officials draft changes to Bush-era mandate on ID cards By Chris Strohm The Congress Daily (Washington, DC), May 18, 2009 http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090518_4120.php Federal and state officials have drafted legislation to replace a controversial 2005 law that set national standards for driver's … Continue reading

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Blacks, Latinos Lead Vallejo Drop-Out Rates

Blacks, Latinos lead Vallejo dropout rates By Shauntel Lowe The Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA), May 18, 2009 http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_12394166?nclick_check=1 A ray of good news streamed into Vallejo this past week when state education officials released data showing a nearly … Continue reading

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Stakes Rise As Drug War Threatens To Cross Border

Stakes rise as drug war threatens to cross border By Ann O'Neill The CNN News, May 18, 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/mexico.us.cartels/index.html Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera, a 54-year-old drug cartel leader whose nickname means 'Shorty,' is the most wanted man in Mexico. … Continue reading

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Immigration: When Only ‘Geniuses’ Need Apply

Immigration: When Only 'Geniuses' Need Apply Top artists, writers, and musicians are among those awarded O-1 visas each year to add to U.S. culture and the economy By Moira Herbst Business Week, May 17, 2009 http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2009/db20090517_864505.htm In the coming weeks, … Continue reading

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Who Should Get Aid From City?

Who should get aid from city? Comment about citizenship status by mayors office sets off foes of illegal immigration By Susan Carroll and Bradley Olson The Houston Chronicle, May 17, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6427551.html Just weeks after Mayor Bill White did an … Continue reading

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The Real Moral Of Nannygate

The real moral of nannygate Thomas Walkom The Toronto Star May 16, 2009 04:30 AM Comments on this story : (27) Hidden behind the delightfully juicy contretemps over how Brampton MP Ruby Dhalla treated her Filipina nannies lies a larger, … Continue reading

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Canadian Refugee Claims By Czech Minority Surge After Arson Attack On Family

Canadian refugee claims by Czech minority surge after arson attack on child Ottawa says visa-seekers pursuing economic opportunity, not escaping persecution By Peter O'Neil and Wency Leung Canwest News Service May 16, 2009 Three Molotov cocktails hurled into a family … Continue reading

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Airline Mechanics Who Can’t Read English

Airline mechanics who can't read English By Byron Harris The WFAA News (Dallas), May 16, 2009 http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/investigates/stories/wfaa090515-_lj_harris.7a4a7d4.html News 8 has recently revealed serious flaws in the way the FAA licenses mechanics who fix planes. There is evidence of years of … Continue reading

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Mass Exodus From UK

Mass exodus from UK Catherine Deshayes The Move Channel.com Friday, May 15, 2009 New research has found that a whopping 11 million Brits are thinking of taking a job overseas within the next two years – a significant dent in … Continue reading

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