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Circuses Are Facing A Shortage Of Tightrope Walkers, Trapeze Artists and Acrobats

Circuses facing shortage of tightrope walkers Circuses are facing a shortage of tightrope walkers, trapeze artists and acrobats because of problems with tough new immigration rules, MPs are to hear By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor The Telegraph Last Updated: 6:07PM … Continue reading

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Calais Refugee Film Makes Illegal Immigration ‘Noble’

Calais refugee film makes illegal immigration 'noble' A film about a 'lovable' Calais refugee who swims across the Channel in a bid to sneak into Britain has been released in cinemas in France. Telegraph.co.uk Last Updated: 11:08PM GMT 01 Mar … Continue reading

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Ethnic Minority Pupils Race Ahead Of Poor White Classmates In Schools

Ethnic minority pupils race ahead of poor white classmates in schools Immigrant pupils are overtaking many white children at school because their families place more value on education, a key Government adviser has said. By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent The … Continue reading

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Canada Takes Back Deported Gangster

Canada takes back deported gangster Stewart Bell National Post Published: Saturday, February 28, 2009 Canadian officials acknowledged yesterday that they helped bring a “dangerous” gang member to Toronto from South Asia this week, two days before the government unveiled its … Continue reading

Posted in News, News Articles Prior to 2011

New Security Secretary Called For Review To ‘Kick The Tires’

New security secretary called for review to kick the tires' Homeland security secretary says she just wants to 'kick the tires' in her new department PAUL KORING From Saturday's Globe and Mail February 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM EST WASHINGTON … Continue reading

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Calls For Brent Sharia Law Councillor To Resign

Calls for Brent Sharia law councillor to resign By Tara Brady Harrow Observer Feb 25 2009 Politicians in Brent are calling for the resignation of a councillor after he advocated the introduction of Sharia law for British Muslims on a … Continue reading

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Life Doomed By Climate Woes: Top British Scientist

Life doomed by climate woes: Top British scientist By Peter Griffiths Reuters February 25, 2009 British scientist James Lovelock, famous for his Gaia theory of the Earth being a kind of living organism, said higher temperatures will turn parts of … Continue reading

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Stimulus Package Sets H-1B Limits, Leaves Out E-Verify Mandate

Stimulus package sets H-1B limits, leaves out E-Verify mandate Of two IT-related amendments to the economic stimulus bill, only one makes the cut. By Patrick Thibodeau and Jaikumar Vijayan Computer World, February 23, 2009 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=334451&intsrc=news_ts_head A provision requiring banks receiving … Continue reading

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Walls Closing In On Immigrants

Walls closing in on immigrants Economy, border crackdown hits community hard By Laura Crimaldi The Boston Herald, February 22, 2009 http://news.bostonherald.com/news/hard_times/view/2009_02_22_Walls_closing_in_on_immigrants:_Economy__border_ crackdown_hits_community_hard/srvc=home&position=also A worldwide economic crisis coupled with a surge in border enforcement at the end of the Bush administration … Continue reading

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In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend The Flock

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock By Dan Frosch The New York Times, February 22, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/us/22wyoming.html?em Rock Springs, WY — Somewhere in Wyomings vast, barren sagebrush country, Lorenzo Cortez Vargas pokes his head out of the rickety camper where … Continue reading

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Border Patrol Goes Double Green

Border Patrol goes double green: Building to be model for energy efficiency By Aileen B. Flores The El Paso Times (TX), February 22, 2009 http://www.elpasotimes.com/communities/ci_11762316 El Paso, TX — The first U.S. Border Patrol station to be Leadership in Energy … Continue reading

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Maternity Ward Tourists

Maternity ward tourists Expectant foreigners are using our hospitals for passports, doctors say Tom Blackwell National Post February 21, 2009 A growing number of pregnant women from foreign countries are giving birth here just so the babies can win Canadian … Continue reading

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Government Offers Look At Nation’s Immigrants

Government Offers Look at Nations Immigrants By Sam Roberts The New York Times, February 21, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/us/21census.html?ref=us Indians are the best educated newcomers from overseas. Somalis are the youngest and poorest. Immigrants from Jordan and Bangladesh are most likely to … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrant Case Stemming From Van Nuys Work Site Raid Is Dismissed

Illegal immigration case stemming from Van Nuys work site raid is dismissed ICE agents violated regulations in 2008 raid, judge says in ruling that could affect dozens of other cases. By Anna Gorman The Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2009 … Continue reading

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You Can Say What You Want, But Not On My Dime

You can say what you want, but not on my dime By Susan Martinuk Calgary Herald February 20, 2009 Never bite the hand that feeds you. It's a foundational lesson; but one that Khaled Mouammar, leader of the Canadian Arab … Continue reading

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DOD Officials See Terrorist Threat To America Brewing In Canada

DOD Officials See Terrorist Threat to America Brewing in Canada By Sebastian Sprenger InsideDefense.com, February 20, 2009 http://defensenewsstand.com/insider.asp?issue=02202009sp Military officials believe Canadian immigration policies are creating a 'favorable' environment for what the U.S. government deems to be potential terrorists seeking … Continue reading

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Feds Say In-Law Of Bin-Laden’s Bodygyard Lied About Terror Ties To Get U.S. Citizenship

Feds say in-law of bin Laden's bodyguard lied about terror ties to get US citizenship By Gillian Flaccus and Amy Taxin The Associated Press Writers, February 20, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-afghan-arrested,1,4601791.story Santa Ana, CA (AP) — The brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's … Continue reading

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Country’s Recession Sends Migrant Workers Home

Countrys recession sends migrant workers back home by Darren Devine South Wales Echo Feb 20 2009 A BUSINESSMAN who runs a company bringing migrant workers to Wales says they are heading home in droves as the recession hits the jobs … Continue reading

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Julia Gillard Rejects Claims Migrant Intake Threat To Jobs

Julia Gillard rejects claims migrant intake threat to jobs John Masanauskas and AAP Article from: Herald Sun February 20, 2009 09:40am The Federal Government has rejected research which shows its $42 billion economic stimulus package will not save jobs unless … Continue reading

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457 Visas ‘May Cost Local-Born Their Jobs’

457 visas 'may cost local-born their jobs' By Paul Maley The Australian, February 20, 2009 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25080733-2702,00.html Australia's record intake of temporary skilled migrants during the economic downturn could boost the number of Australian-born unemployed, as research suggests it is being … Continue reading

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