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New Challenges Arise For Minorities In 2010 Census

New challenges arise for minorities in 2010 census The Associated Press, March 18, 2009 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/18/america/NA-FEA-US-Census-Minorities.php Philadelphia (AP) — What seems like a simple question – How many Hispanics are living in the United States? – has become surprisingly complex as … Continue reading

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Strategy Shifts From Illegals To Cash, Weapons

Strategy shifts from illegals to cash, weapons By Carolyn Lochhead The San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/MND616HC2C.DTL Washington, DC — California lawmakers and the Obama administration have begun to shift U.S. border policy with Mexico, abruptly changing focus from … Continue reading

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Filipino Teachers Exchange Homeland For Jobs In America

Filipino teachers exchange homeland for jobs in America More than 100 school districts, including at least 20 in California, are recruiting in the Philippines to fill teacher shortages in math, science and special education. By Teresa Watanabe The Los Angeles … Continue reading

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Martinez Heats Up Immigration Debate

Martinez heats up immigration debate By Gebe Martinez The Politico (Washington, DC), March 18, 2009 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20125.html As national Republican Party conservatives debate whether the partys tent is big enough for the more progressive leanings of its first African-American chairman, Michael … Continue reading

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Europe Falls Out Of Love With Labor Migration

DRAWING UP THE DRAWBRIDGES Europe Falls Out of Love with Labor Migration By SPIEGEL Staff 03/18/2009 With unemployment soaring, many European Union countries want the migrant workers they once attracted to go home as quickly as possible. They are sparing … Continue reading

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Anglo-French Detention Centre To Thwart Would-Be Illegal Immigrants

Anglo-French detention centre to thwart would-be illegal immigrants Migrants queue for free food near the centre of Calais Richard Ford, Home Correspondent From The Times March 18, 2009 A joint Anglo-French detention centre is being planned for Calais to hold … Continue reading

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French Ask: Should It Be A Crime To Help Illegal Immigrants?

French ask: Should it be a crime to help illegal immigrants? High-profile cases and a new movie have sparked debate about the boundaries between compassion and civic duty. By Susan Sachs Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the March … Continue reading

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Seasonal Work Vacancies Hard To Fill

Seasonal work vacancies hard to fill By JOANNE CARROLL in Cromwell The Southland Times Last updated 05:00 18/03/2009 Central Otago orchards and vineyards are still struggling to fill seasonal work vacancies. Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman said he was looking into … Continue reading

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Internal Report Slams Deportation Review Process

Internal report slams deportation review process The Canadian Press Updated Wed. Mar. 18 2009 6:23 PM ET OTTAWA — A federal program to prevent people from being shipped home to torture has quietly mushroomed into an inefficient new layer of … Continue reading

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Protected Status Sought For Haitians

Protected status sought for Haitians By Nicholas Kralev The Washington Times, March 18, 2009 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/haitian-refugees-rejected-for-protected-status/ The Obama administration is resisting pressure from congressional Democrats and immigration advocates to allow tens of thousands of undocumented Haitians to remain legally in the … Continue reading

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Critics Want Crackdown As Nannies Exploited

Critics want crackdown as nannies exploited Robert Cribb Dale Brazao Toronto Star March 17, 2009 Comments on this story (30) The federal government must prosecute nanny recruiters that prey on vulnerable foreign caregivers, say opposition politicians, industry insiders and the … Continue reading

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Processing System Branded As Corrup ; Refugees: Fake Applicants Accused Of Abusing System

Processing system branded as 'corrupt': REFUGEES: fake applicants accused of abusing system; [1* Edition] MOIRA FARROW The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, B.C. Mar 17, 1992.pg.A.1 Canada's refugee processing is a national embarrassment that is grossly abused by fake applicants and is … Continue reading

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Migrant Workers Sending Less Money To Latin America

Migrant Workers Sending Less Money to Latin America By Miriam Jordan The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123722318175744001.html Funds sent by overseas workers back to Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to drop steeply in 2009, shrinking a … Continue reading

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Most Colleges Knowingly Admit Illegal Immigrants

Most Colleges Knowingly Admit Illegal Immigrants as Students, Survey Finds By Katherine Mangan The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2009 http://chronicle.com/news/article/6139/most-colleges-knowingly-admit-illegal-immigrants-as-students-survey-finds More than half of the colleges that responded to a recent survey said they knowingly admit illegal immigrants … Continue reading

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Asian Americans Urge Obama To Reform Immigration

Asian-Americans urge Obama to reform immigration Agence France Presse, March 17, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jS8HteystrIWzbdkKsA138B4i9dw Washington, DC (AFP) — Asian-American members of the US Congress on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to reform immigration by year end, saying the current system was … Continue reading

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Obama Switch On Civil Rights Post Leaves Latinos Fuming

Obama switch on civil rights post leaves Latinos fuming By Tyche Hendricks The San Francisco Chronicle, March 17, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?&entry_id=37114 When Obama named Maryland Secretary of Labor Tom Perez as his nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights … Continue reading

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Record Migration Into Britain Is Result Of Gov’t Policy Failings

Record migration into Britain is result of Government policy failings Record migration into Britain is a result of a failure of Government policies to control the borders since 1991, a new report claims. By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor Telegraph.co.UK Last … Continue reading

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Detyention Centre Planned For Illegal Immigrants In Calais

Detention centre planned for illegal immigrants in Calais A detention centre is being planned for Calais to hold hundreds of illegal immigrants trying to sneak in to the UK, immigration minister Phil Woolas has said. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs … Continue reading

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Halonen and Ahtisarri Differ Slightly On Immigration

Halonen and Ahtisaari differ slightly on immigration President Halonen and predecessors attend Presidential Forum Tuesday HELSINGIN SANOMAT INTERNATIONAL EDITION – HOME March 17, 2009 Finnish President Tarja Halonen says that she is not surprised at the recent growth in anti-foreigner … Continue reading

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Australia Slashes Immigration As Recession Looms

Australia Slashes Immigration as Recession Looms The Star (Malaysia), March 17, 2009 http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/17/business/3491077&sec=business Australia will cut immigration for the first time in a decade, with recession looming and unemployment rising sharply, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said yesterday. Were going to … Continue reading

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