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Migrants Face Big Losses As Law Changes

Migrants suffer big losses as law changes By Lincoln Tan New Zealand Herald 4:00AM Monday May 04, 2009 Hundreds of would-be immigrants are today in limbo as a law comes into effect that could stall their bid to live legally … Continue reading

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AFP Swoop On Two Women Over Fake Passport Claims

AFP swoop on two women over fake passport claims Article from: The Daily Telegraph May 04, 2009 12:00am A POST office clerk and a suburban mother allegedly masterminded a fake passport racket to bring illegal immigrants into Australia. The false … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrants Will No Longer Be Locked Up

Illegal immigrants will no longer be locked up Wayne Flower and Ben Packham The Australian May 04, 2009 12:00am ILLEGAL immigrants will no longer be locked up and deported when caught by authorities, in a major softening of immigration procedures. … Continue reading

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‘Hire American’ Provisions Frustrate Universities, Employers

'Hire American' provisions frustrate universities, employers By Rob Hotakainen The State (Columbia), May 3, 2009 http://www.thestate.com/nationalpolitics/story/773101.html Washington, DC — At Duke University in North Carolina, where foreign nationals account for 60 percent of this year's master's class in engineering, Vivek … Continue reading

Posted in American, News

Illegal Immigrants ‘Would Cost 1 Million Pounds Each If Granted Amnesty’

Illegal immigrants 'would cost 1m each if granted amnesty' Illegal immigrants would each cost the taxpayer 1 million over their lifetime if they were granted an amnesty, a think tank warns. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor The Teleghraph Last … Continue reading

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Underground Threat: Tunnels Pose Trouble From Mexico To Middle East

Underground Threat: Tunnels Pose Trouble from Mexico to Middle East By Ken Stier Time Magazine, May 2, 2009 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1895430,00.html?iid=tsmodule With swine flu frenzy gripping the U.S., the threat coming from south of the Mexico border may seem more real to … Continue reading

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LA Judge Orders Widows’ Green Card Cases Reopened

LA judge orders widows' green card cases reopened By Amy Taxin The Associated Press, May 2, 2009 http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47574 Los Angeles (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the government to reopen the immigration cases of dozens of foreign widows … Continue reading

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The Migration Myth

The migration myth Timothy Hatton, Jeffrey Williamson Business Spectator May 2, 2009 Todays global economic crisis has turned a media spotlight on immigration. Sagging labour markets have led to calls for even tougher restrictions on potential competition from immigrant workers, … Continue reading

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Broken Dreams, Delayed Ambitions

Broken dreams, delayed ambitions TheStar.com | Recession | Generation why me? May 02, 2009 04:30 AM VOICES Avijoy Elahi, 24 Grew up in Toronto and graduated from York University in 2008 with a degree in administrative studies. Currently, he's selling … Continue reading

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Area Farmers Fear Swine Flu Impact

Area farmers fear swine flu impact Posted By IAN MCINROY Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin May 1, 2009 Area farmers are anxiously awaiting news from Citizenship and Immigration officials about the swine flu's impact on Mexican farm workers bound for Canada. Canada has … Continue reading

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British MP George Galloway Starts Libel Suit Against Canadian Immigration Minister

British MP George Galloway starts libel suit against Cdn immigration minister The Canadian Press May 1, 2009 TORONTO British antiwar MP George Galloway, who was denied entry into Canada in March, announced Friday he plans to sue Immigration Minister Jason … Continue reading

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Calls To Fix Refugee System Follow Arrest Of Bosnian Killer

Calls to fix refugee system follow arrest Of Bosnian Killer Gwendolyn Richards Canwest News Service Published: Friday, May 01, 2009 The arrest in Canada of a Bosnian man convicted of murder — more than a decade after he escaped prison … Continue reading

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Swine Flu Aside, Border Agents See Illness Often

Swine flu aside, border agents see illness often By Arthur H. Rotstein The Associated Press, May 1, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6403609.html Tucson, AZ (AP) — Border Patrol agents along the southwestern border with Mexico are on alert for illegal immigrants who may … Continue reading

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Latinos Ask Obama For More Key Posts In Government ****

Latinos Ask Obama for More Key Posts in Government The Latin American Herald Tribune (Caracas, Venezuela), May 1, 2009 http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=333327&CategoryId=12395 Washington, DC — Several Latino leaders sent a petition to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, his 100th day in office, … Continue reading

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Angry Minutemen Protest Utah’s Guest-Worker Plan

Angry Minutemen protest Utah's guest-worker plan By Sheena Mcfarland The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City), May 1, 2009 http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12273244 About 20 protesters gathered outside of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce building Friday to protest the organization's plan for … Continue reading

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For Imigrants, Colorado Jobs Vanishing

For immigrants, Colo. jobs vanishing The number of foreign-born workers has fallen by more than for U.S.-born laborers. By Bruce Finley The Denver Post, May 1, 2009 http://www.denverpost.com/nationalpolitics/ci_12267517 As Congress reopened immigration debate Thursday, new data indicated immigrants are bearing … Continue reading

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Wanting A Job In UK Just Got Harder

Wanting a job in UK just got harder Couriermail.com.au May 01, 2009 12:00am AUSTRALIANS wanting to work in Britain face cuts to the number of skilled jobs open to them under plans to curb local unemployment levels. The UK government … Continue reading

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Faster Licence Agreed For Foreign Sheep Shearers

Faster licence agreed for foreign sheep shearers Darlington and Stockton Times 9:55am Friday 1st May 2009 FOREIGN sheep shearers are to be fast-tracked through the immigration system to try and avoid millions of UK sheep suffering during summer temperatures. New … Continue reading

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700 Jopbs To Go As Rudd’s Axe Falls On Immigration Department

700 jobs to go as Rudd's axe falls on Immigration Department Jewel Topsfield Published in The Brisbane Times May 1, 2009 ONE in 10 jobs is expected to be slashed from the Immigration Department in this month's federal budget. Despite … Continue reading

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Jakarta Part Of Solution

Jakarta part of solution Donald Rothwell May 01, 2009 Article from: The Australian AS two more boatloads of asylum seekers were detained this week by Border Protection Command and the federal Opposition called for an inquiry into the sinking of … Continue reading

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