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Thousands Of Gurkhas To Be Granted British Residency: Report

Thousands of Gurkhas to be granted British residency: report AFP January 29, 2009 LONDON (AFP) Up to 36,000 Gurkha soldiers and their families will be allowed to settle in Britain under a change of policy to be announced by the … Continue reading

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Asian Immigration Growing Fast In Australia : Census

Asian immigration growing fast in Australia: census AFP January 29, 2009 SYDNEY (AFP) Australia's Asian population is growing rapidly as more immigrants from across the region pour into a country once despised for its racially exclusive policies, official statistics showed … Continue reading

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Trafficking In False Promises

Trafficking in false promises Immigration tricksters in Punjab region prey on Indians who hope for new lives in Canada Rick Westhead SOUTH ASIA BUREAU Jan 29, 2009 04:30 AM Kapurthala, IndiaOne morning in February 2007, Harvinder Singh read an ad … Continue reading

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Stimulus Plan Seeks To Ban Illegals From Tax Credit

Stimulus plan seeks to bar illegals from tax credit By Julie Hirschfeld Davis The Associated Press, January 29, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/6236670.html Washington, DC (AP) — Illegal immigrants without Social Security numbers could not get tax credits under the $800 billion-plus economic … Continue reading

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Homeland Security Wants Criminal Aliens Out Of U.S.

Homeland secretary wants criminal aliens out of US By EILEEN SULLIVAN AP foreign Thursday January 29 2009 Associated Press Writer—WASHINGTON (AP) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says if you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United … Continue reading

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Obama’s Illegal Aunt Seeks Asylum

Obama's illegal aunt seeks asylum 'This type of obstinacy and persistence is well known to the family' By Chelsea Schilling World Net Daily JANUARY 28, 2009 President Barack Obama's illegal alien aunt has enlisted the help of an immigration lawyer … Continue reading

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Activists Keep Heat On Obama Over Immigration

Activists keep heat on Obama over immigration By Tim Gaynor Reuters, January 28, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE50R7K320090128 Phoenix (Reuters) — When U.S. President Barack Obama took office last week, a coalition of south Texas landowners wrote to his new administration urging an … Continue reading

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Half A Million Poles ‘Will Stay In Britain Despite Recession’

Half a million Poles 'will stay in Britain despite recession' At least half a million migrant Poles will stay in the UK, despite reports they are heading home because of the economic downturn, according to a group representing them. By … Continue reading

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English ‘A Barrier For 300 Schools’

English 'a barrier for 300 schools' The Press Association January 28, 2009 More than 300 primary schools in England have a large majority of children whose first language is not English, it has been revealed. Labour's former minister Frank Field … Continue reading

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Rudyard Griffiths: Canada Pays The Price Of Immigration On The Cheap

Rudyard Griffiths: Canada pays the price of immigration on the cheap Posted: January 27, 2009, 8:00 AM by NP Editor Full Comment, Rudyard Griffiths One of the enjoyable things about writing for the National Post is the feedback you get … Continue reading

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Burmese Refugees Struggle To Resettle In Canada

Burmese refugees struggle to resettle in Canada By Marianne White Canwest News Service January 27, 2009 (Reprinted from January 3, 2009) QUEBEC : Rahima Begum holds a crumpled sheet in her hands that seems to have been folded and looked … Continue reading

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Republicans Oppose Broader Children’s Health Bill

Republicans oppose broader children's health bill By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press 01.27.09, 08:48 AM EST Republican lawmakers tried to slow momentum for expanding a children's health insurance program Monday by arguing that a bill in the Senate would draw about … Continue reading

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Tories: Migrant Level Is Too High

TORIES: MIGRANT LEVEL IS TOO HIGH Sunday Express Tuesday January 27,2009 DAVID Cameron last night warned that immigration was too high under Labour. In a rare foray into the contentious issue, the Tory leader called for a strict limit to … Continue reading

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Senator Wants U.S, Companies To Fire Foreign Workers First

Senator wants US companies to fire foreign workers first The Economic Times 26 Jan 2009, 2301 hrs IST, IANS WASHINGTON: An influential senator has asked US companies to make efforts to fire foreign workers first while making lay-offs during the … Continue reading

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U.S. Says Rule Lifted Limiting Immigration Arrests

US says rule lifted limiting immigration arrests By TED BRIDIS and EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press January 26, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) The Homeland Security Department reversed itself Monday, saying that weeks after the presidential election it lifted a new rule requiring … Continue reading

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Immigration Less Important

Immigration less important, report says Stephen Wall, Staff Writer Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Created: 01/26/2009 04:31:10 PM PST A year and a half ago, the immigration debate rankled members of Congress and the public. Today, it has receded in importance, … Continue reading

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Record 1900 New Aussies At WA Ceremony

Record 1,900 new Aussies at WA ceremony Warwick Stanley The Sydney Morning Herald January 26, 2009 No-one has done better than Australia at settling migrants, Immigration and Citizenship Minister Chris Evans has told the nation's largest Australia Day citizenship ceremony. … Continue reading

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Population Australia’s Biggest Threat

Population Australia's 'big threat' Peter Ker The Age January 24, 2009 PROMINENT Australians have thrown their support behind a controversial new book which argues that population growth is the biggest threat to environmental sustainability in this country. In a provocative … Continue reading

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3000 Would-Be Immigrants Used Fake Quebec Health Cards : Report

3,000 would-be immigrants used fake Que. health cards: report Canwest News Service January 24, 2009 10:01 PM MONTREAL Quebecs health-care insurance board and the RCMP have uncovered a ring of about 3,000 north Africans allegedly using fake medicare cards to … Continue reading

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United Way President To Join CSIS Watchdog

United Way president to join CSIS watchdog DANIEL LEBLANC Globe and Mail January 24, 2009 OTTAWA — The head of United Way Toronto, Frances Lankin, is taking a side job as a member of the federal watchdog that oversees Canada's … Continue reading

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