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Stanthorpe Ripe For Migrant Workers : Growcom

Stanthorpe ripe for migrant workers: Growcom ABC NEWS Posted Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:00am AEST Map: Stanthorpe 4380 Horticulture group Growcom says it will consider nominating the Granite Belt as the next place to take part in the Federal Government's … Continue reading

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Indians Get 38% Of H-1B’s In ’08

Indians got 38% H-1Bs in '08 The Press Trust of India, April 13, 2009 http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Indians-got-38-H-1Bs-in-08/articleshow/4395409.cms Washington, DC — As the US is having a tough time in filling up its annual quota of 65,000 H-1B work visas for highly skilled … Continue reading

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Will An Overhaul Of Immigration Policy Help Or Hurt Your Job Prospects?

Obama's Immigration Plans and Your Job Security in the Recession Will an Overhaul of Immigration Policy Help or Hurt Your Job Prospects? By Scott Mayerowitz The ABC News, April 13, 2009 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7309315&page=1 Danny Fowler used to run a small construction … Continue reading

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Census Concern: Immigrants May Avoid The Count

Census concern: Immigrants may avoid the count By Daniel Gonzlez The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), April 13, 2009 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/13/20090413census0410.html With the 2010 census less than a year away, officials have launched a campaign to build trust with undocumented immigrants amid growing … Continue reading

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Compromise Sought On Immigrant Driver’s Licences

Compromise sought on immigrant driver's licenses Plan would allow renewal applications without proof of legal presence By Julie Bykowicz The Baltimore Sun (MD), April 13, 2009 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-driver-license-bill0413,0,1155806.story State lawmakers are at work on a compromise on whether illegal immigrants with … Continue reading

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Immigration Issue Stalls County Business Licence Plan

Immigration issue stalls county business license plan Amendment ignites Hispanic opposition to ordinance that gives sheriff power to shut down violators By Ben Szobody The Greenville News (SC), April 13, 2009 http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090413/NEWS01/904130303/1068/YOURUPSTATE01 A flood of opposition from Latino business leaders … Continue reading

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Tancredo At UNC For Illegal Immigration Talk

Tancredo at UNC for illegal immigration talk The News and Observer (Raleigh), April 13, 2009 http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1483421.html Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a leading critic of U.S. immigration policy, will be in Chapel Hill on Tuesday to speak against the admission … Continue reading

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David Attenborough To Be Patron Of Optimum Population Trust

David Attenborough to be patron of Optimum Population Trust Sir David Attenborough Parminder Bahra, Poverty and Development Correspondent From The Times April 14, 2009 Sir David Attenborough said yesterday that the growth in global population was frightening, as he became … Continue reading

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Pakistani ‘Terror Suspects’ To Be Deported Rather Than Charged

Pakistani 'terror plot suspects' to be deported rather than charged Haji Hazrat Ali with a portrait of his son Mohammad Ramzan Sean ONeill, Zahid Hussain and Michael Evans From The Times April 13, 2009 Most of the Pakistani men arrested … Continue reading

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Anger Over 78 Pound Deportation Ruling

Anger over 78 deportation ruling BBC NEWS April 13, 2009 A tribunal ruling which has left an Indian man and his family facing deportation has been criticised by Stagecoach millionaire Ann Gloag. Swarthick Salin has lived in Scotland for nine … Continue reading

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Significant Decline In New Arrivals As Economy Shrinks

Significant decline in new arrivals as economy shrinks RUADHAN Mac CORMAIC, Migration Correspondent The Irish Times Monday, April 13, 2009 THE DRAMATIC easing of inward migration flows to the Republic has continued in the early months of the year, with … Continue reading

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U.S. Suspended A Program To Re-Unite Refugee Families Amid Fraud Allegations

Source of refuge, and separation U.S. suspended a program to reunite refugee families amid fraud allegations, and now relatives are stranded By Susan Carroll The Houston Chronicle, April 12, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6369533.html When Mayam Kromah dropped by a Houston immigration clinic … Continue reading

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Report: More Than A Million New Citizens Last Year

Report: More than a million new citizens last year By Stephen Wall The Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA), April 12, 2009 http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12129914 Motivated by the historic presidential election, a record number of people became citizens last year. A little … Continue reading

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‘Birth Tourism’ Is Target Of Immigration Initiative

'Birth tourism' is target of immigration initiative Group refining measure to restrict immigrant services By Shane Goldmacher The Sacramento Bee, April 11, 2009 http://www.modbee.com/local/story/662721.html A group of conservative activists are hoping to bring the issue of illegal immigration back to … Continue reading

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Student Visa Loophole Sparks Diplomatic Row

Student visa loophole sparks diplomatic row Gordon Brown has been dragged into a diplomatic row with Pakistan over the flawed student visa system which allowed suspects in an alleged al-Qaeda cell to arrive unnoticed in the UK. By Gordon Rayner, … Continue reading

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Revealed : Pakistan’s ‘Cottage Industry’ In Forged Documents Sought By Terrorists

Revealed: Pakistan's 'cottage industry' in forged documents sought by terrorists Forged degree certificates, fake income tax returns and bogus payslips were on sale in Pakistan yesterday all valuable tools to help terrorists obtain student visas for Britain. By Emal Khan, … Continue reading

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New Rules To Speed Up Deportations

New rules to speed up deportations Review of immigration system aims to tackle abuse of asylum process and cut costs From The Sunday Times April 11, 2009 The Department of Justice plans to introduce rules that will allow the state … Continue reading

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Homeland Security Secretary Can’t Say If Illegal Aliens Will Get Stimulus Money

Homeland Security Secretary Cant Say If Illegal Aliens Will Get Stimulus Money By Penny Starr The CNS News, April 10, 2009 http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46397 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday could not say whether $100-million in additional funding for a program … Continue reading

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Borders Row After Terror Arrests

Borders row after terror arrests BBC NEWS April 10. 2009 A row has broken out over Britain's border security, following the arrest of 12 people suspected of involvement in an alleged terror bomb plot. Ministers rejected claims controls were too … Continue reading

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Court Gives Immigrant Drivers Break

Court gives immigrant drivers break By Peggy Fikac The San Antonio Express News (TX), April 9, 2009 http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Judge_agrees_to_block_new_driver_license_rules.html Austin — A state judge Thursday agreed to put on hold stringent new Texas driver license rules that were touted last year … Continue reading

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