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Escapees’ Bid For Freedom Dies At Sea

Escapees' bid for freedom dies at sea The Australian Stephen Fitzpatrick January 16, 2009 A NINE-YEAR-OLD Afghani boy is feared among the dead after a group of would-be asylum-seekers was shipwrecked trying to cross from West Timor to Australia. Police … Continue reading

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Recession Unlikely To Drive Away Illegal Immigrants, Study Finds

Recession Unlikely to Drive Away Illegal Immigrants, Report Finds By N.C. Aizenman The Washington Post, January 15, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/ AR2009011401366_pf.html Although the U.S. economy's nosedive has probably contributed to a substantial drop in the number of illegal immigrants coming into … Continue reading

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House Votes To Expand Child Health Insurance

House Votes to Expand Child Health Insurance By Shailagh Murray and Ceci Connolly The Washington Post, January 15, 2009; Page A06 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/ AR2009011403241.html The House easily approved an expansion of government health coverage for low-income children yesterday, a top priority … Continue reading

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The People Crunch—The Economic Crunch Is Battering Migrants

The people crunch Jan 15th 2009 From The Economist print edition The economic slump is battering migrants. For tens of millions of people working outside their homelands, life is becoming much more precarious AFP WORKERS waiting at airports: some flying … Continue reading

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Citizenship Test Plans Published

Citizenship test plans published By Dominic Casciani Home affairs reporter, BBC News January 15, 2009 Immigrants who want to become British will need to pass more tests to prove their worth under citizenship plans. The Home Office bill will make … Continue reading

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Lumley Slams Officials Over Gurkhas

Lumley slams officials over Gurkhas The Press Association January 15, 2009 Actress Joanna Lumley accused defence officials of scaremongering about the potential cost of settling retired Gurkhas in the UK. A report in Wednesday's Evening Standard said military officials were … Continue reading

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UK-Irish Travellers To Face Passport Checks

UK-Irish travellers to face passport checks Tighter border controls on air and sea routes to end 80 years' free movement Alan Travis, home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 January 2009 17.24 GMT Fifteen million a people a year who travel … Continue reading

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Job Market Tightens For Filipinos

Job market tightens for Filipinos By Alexia Johnston The Ashburton Guardian January 15, 2009 Skilled Filipinos will no longer gain easy employment access to New Zealands dairy industry, despite their reputation as hard honest workers. Immigration New Zealand has tightened … Continue reading

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Migrant Accountants Fail English Test

Migrant accountants fail English test Yuko Narushima Sydney Morning Herald January 14, 2009 OVERSEAS accountants are flocking to Australia under the skilled migration program but few pass the English requirements to work in the sector, leaving labour shortfalls unmet, a … Continue reading

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Australia, Vietnam UK Sign Anti-Crime Pact

Australia, Vietnam, UK strike anti-crime pact ABC NEWS Posted Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:21am AEDT Communist Vietnam has signed pacts with Australia and Britain to jointly fight migration fraud and other transnational crime, statements from London and Canberra said. Australia … Continue reading

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Change The Things You Can

Change the things you can Rudyard Griffiths National Post Published: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Discussion about what should be in the upcoming federal budget has focused almost exclusively on how tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct cash infusions for troubled … Continue reading

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More Gitmo Inmates May Look To Canada

More Gitmo inmates may look to Canada Jim Brown THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan 14, 2009 05:54 PM OTTAWA Omar Khadr isn't the only Guantanamo inmate who could look northward if the incoming Obama administration carries through on its promise to … Continue reading

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Paraplegic Deportee In Canadian Custody

Paraplegic deportee in Canadian custody UPI Published: Jan. 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 14 (UPI) — A wheelchair-bound deportee was taken into custody in Canada Wednesday after skipping a deportation flight to Britain, authorities said. Paraplegic Chris … Continue reading

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George Bush Urged To Free Ex-Agents

George Bush again urged to free ex-agents By Diana Washington Valdez The El Paso Times (TX), January 14, 2009 http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11447733 El Paso, TX — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said Tuesday they had repeated their … Continue reading

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The Migrants Who Just Don’t Belong, By The Archbishop of York

The migrants who just don't belong, by the Archbishop of York By Steve Doughty MailOnSunday.co.uk Last updated at 12:20 AM on 14th January 2009 The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, says migrants have failed to integrate into British society … Continue reading

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Immigration Workers In BNP Probe

Immigration workers in BNP probe BBC NEWS January 14, 2009 An investigation was launched after two immigration workers were suspected of being members of the far-right British National Party, it has emerged. The UK Border Agency said the pair were … Continue reading

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Border Patrol Attempts To Break Cycle Of Repeat Crossings

BP attempts to break cycle of repeat crossings By Denise Holley The Nogales International (AZ), January 13, 2009 http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2009/01/13/news/ doc496cb19f2a616043016592.txt U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector would like to see the day when fewer illegal immigrants travel north … Continue reading

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Raids To Become The Focus Of Immigration Policy Push

Raids to become the focus of immigration policy push By Jared Allen The Hill (Washington, DC), January 13, 2009 http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/raids-to-become-the-focus-of- immigration-policy-push-2009-01-13.html Hispanic Democrats are changing their strategy to get a sweeping rewrite of immigration laws passed, focusing attention on controversial … Continue reading

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E-Verify Postponed For Contractors

E-Verify postponed for contractors By Alice Lipowicz FEDERAL COMPUTER WEEK Jan 12, 2009 Enforcement of a new rule that requires federal contractors to use the Homeland Security Departments E-Verify system to check employees' work eligibility has been postponed until Feb. … Continue reading

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Gordon Brown’s Jobs Drive ‘Undermined By Immigration Policies’

Gordon Brown's jobs drive 'undermined by immigration policies' Gordon Brown's drive to create new jobs for British workers and get the unemployed back in work risks being undermined by his immigration policies, an influential coalition of MPs, peers, churchmen and … Continue reading

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