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Green Card Marriage Scam Often Ignored

Green-card marriage scam often ignored By Chad Groening The One News Now, December 15, 2008 http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=354240 David Seminara adjudicated thousands of marriage-based green-card applications while serving in the State Department. He recently wrote a background paper for the Center for … Continue reading

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Census : In Farmers Branch, Hispanics Now No. 1 Demographic Group

Census: In Farmers Branch, Hispanics now No. 1 demographic group By Stephanie Sandoval The Dallas Morning News, December 15, 2008 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/ DN-fbcensus_15met.ART.State.Edition1.4a4abf3.html New census data shows the complexion of Farmers Branch is changing dramatically, giving activists fresh ammunition for their … Continue reading

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Extra Judges Drafted In To Hear Immigrant Appeals

Extra judges drafted in to hear immigration appeals Asylum backlog delays other cases for a year Frances Gibb, Legal Editor From The Times December 15, 2008 Extra judges are being drafted in to deal with more than 8,000 asylum and … Continue reading

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Obama Faces Test Over Immigration

Obama faces test over immigration By Steven Stanek The National (U.A.E.), December 14, 2008 http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081215/FOREIGN/825938504/ 1014/SPORT Washington — While many Americans are turning to Barack Obama to engineer a massive economic recovery and draw up a new strategy for two … Continue reading

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Study : 1 in 4 IT Jobs To Be Offshore By 2010

Study: 1 in 4 IT Jobs to Be Offshore by 2010 Brian Watson Biz-Tech 3.0 Monday, December 15, 2008 4:31 PM/EST Plenty of companies have reasonable qualms about their offshore outsourcing initiatives, but make no mistake: offshoring is alive and … Continue reading

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Border Cops Launch Project To Catch Foreign Criminals In Northern Ontario

Border cops launch project to catch foreign criminals in northern Ontario The Canadian Press December 13, 2008 OTTAWA Canada's border cops began a sweep of northern Ontario earlier this year to catch some of the 1,973 criminals who've apparently gone … Continue reading

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Rules Will Allow DNA Samples From Federal Detainees

Rules will allow DNA samples from federal detainees Currently, only those convicted of federal crimes can have DNA samples taken. Critics say the new rules, which take effect next month, would violate individual rights without solving more crimes. By Evelyn … Continue reading

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Official : Local Police Can Help Confront Illegal Immigration

Official: Local Police Can Help Confront Illegal Immigration The Associated Press, December 13, 2008 http://ktar.com/?sid=61757&nid=416 Arizona taxpayers shouldn't expect local and state police to cure all the state's immigration ills, but local police can assist federal agents in confronting the … Continue reading

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‘Very Plausible Identity’ Can Be Made With Stolen Passport Info : Prof

'Very plausible identity' can be made with stolen passport info: prof CBC NEWS Last Updated: Friday, December 12, 2008 | 12:40 PM MT A University of Calgary professor says applications for government documents are prime targets for identity thieves. “These … Continue reading

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Minister Kenney Announces Appointment To The Immigration And Refugee Board Of Canada

Minister Kenney Announces Appointment to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Dec 12, 2008 11:13 ET OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Dec. 12, 2008) – Rena Dhir has been appointed to a three-year term in the Vancouver office of the Immigration … Continue reading

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Immigrant Blasts Free Services

Immigrant blasts free services Langley Advance Published: Friday, December 12, 2008 Dear Editor, As emigrants, my family and I had to speak, read, and write English or French before we could apply for immigration from Africa to Canada. Not only … Continue reading

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Britain Introduces ID Cards For Foreigners

Britain introduces ID cards for foreigners Pretoria News December 12, 2008 Edition 1 An illegal immigrant was caught out by fingerprint technology on the first day that a new identity card centre for foreign nationals became operative in the UK. … Continue reading

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Jacqui Smith Uses Zimbabwe Crisis To Push Visa Agenda

Jacqui Smith uses Zimbabwe crisis to push visa agenda Richard Ford, Home Correspondent From Times Online December 12, 2008 Jacqui Smith: told cabinet colleagues that Zimbabweans could exploit loopholes in South Africa's passport policy Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has prompted a … Continue reading

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Public Fath In ID Card Slumped

Public faith in ID card slumped The public's faith in ID cards has slumped in the wake of a series of data loss scandals by the Government. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Teleghraph.co.uk Last Updated: 12:52AM GMT 12 Dec … Continue reading

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Indonesia Agrees To Extradition

Indonesia agrees to extradition Tom Allard, Bali The Age December 11, 2008 (PHOTO: Good for the sole: Kevin Rudd presents Indonesian President Susilo Bambang with a pair of R.M. Williams boots. Photo: Glen McCurtayne) AN ALLEGED head of a people-smuggling … Continue reading

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Homeless World Cup Players Claim Asylum

Homeless World Cup players claim asylum Fifteen players in the Homeless World Cup football tournament have sought asylum in Australia. Telegraph.co.uk Last Updated: 3:33PM GMT 11 Dec 2008 The Australian Department of Immigration confirmed that squad members from Afghanistan and … Continue reading

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Gang War Won’t End Until Rivals ‘Are All Dead’

Gang war won't end until rivals are 'all dead' Tribunal hears chilling tale of city's street war Jason Van Rassel Calgary Herald Published: Thursday, December 11, 2008 A Calgary man facing deportation is a gang member with long-standing involvement in … Continue reading

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Patronage Speeds Up In 2008

Patronage speeds up in 2008 Glen McGregor Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, December 11, 2008 OTTAWA – The Harper government has made more than 500 appointments to federal boards, tribunals and commissions this year, including a batch just after the … Continue reading

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Hairdressing Cut May Leave Colleges Stranded

Hairdressing cut may leave colleges stranded Sushi Das The Age December 11, 2008 HAIRDRESSING and cookery are expected to be removed from the list of occupational skills in short supply in Australia a move that would affect migration rules and … Continue reading

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RCMP, Privacy Commissioner Looking Into Missing Mailed Passport Applications

RCMP, privacy commissioner looking into missing mailed passport applications The Cape Breton Post Last updated at 9:23 PM on 10/12/08 LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) Canadas privacy commissioner and the RCMP are looking into the disappearance of several courier packages containing passport … Continue reading

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