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Immigration Target Recruiters

Immigration target recruiters Posted By TOM GODFREY SUN MEDIA October 22, 2008 Immigration officials are targeting a network of shady recruiters who are charging foreign construction workers huge fees for jobs available free in Canada, forcing them to turn over … Continue reading

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Minister Flags Lower Immigrant Intake

Minister Flags Lower Immigrant Intake Paul Maley The Australian October 22, 2008 THE global financial crisis looks set to result in a cut to Australia's migrant intake, with the Rudd Government hinting strongly it will reduce next year's quota amid … Continue reading

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Cuba And Mexico Sign Deal To Deport Migrants

Cuba and Mexico sign deal to deport migrants Mexico's agreement to deport Cubans smuggled into the country is likely to curb the number who make it to the U.S. By Ken Ellingwood Los Angeles Times October 21, 2008 Reported from … Continue reading

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Tories Call For Immigration Cap

Tories call for immigration cap EPolitix.com Tuesday 21st October 2008 at 17:04 The Conservatives have called on the government to introduce a limit on economic migration from outside the EU. The Tories used an opposition day debate to say that … Continue reading

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186 World Youth Day Pilgrims Seek Asylum

186 World Youth Day pilgrims seek asylum By Adam Gartrell AAP October 21, 2008 06:04pm NEARLY 200 pilgrims who came to Australia for World Youth Day have applied for asylum. Department of Immigration and Citizenship officials said that by the … Continue reading

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Australia Faces Compensation Bill For Wrongful Detentions

Australia faces compensation bill for wrongful detentions: lawyer AFP Oct 21, 2008 SYDNEY (AFP) The Australian government may compensate as many as 191 people for wrongfully holding them in immigration detention centres, a parliamentary hearing was told Tuesday. A government … Continue reading

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Chinese Officials Recruited To Tackle Passport Fraud

Chinese officials recruited to tackle passport fraud ABC NEWS Posted Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:41am AEDT The Federal Government has that Chinese officials will be recruited in a crackdown on identify fraud and fake passports. The Government will sponsor two … Continue reading

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Mexicans Swamp Canadian Refuge System

Mexicans swamp Canadian refugee system OTTAWA, Oct. 20 (UPI) — Canada's refugee board is inundated with a record number of Mexican claimants seeking safety from drug wars and corrupt police, officials in Ottawa said. The Globe and Mail newspaper reported … Continue reading

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Supreme Court To Hear Case On Illegal Immigrants’ Use Of Fake I.D.s

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Illegal Immigrants' Use of Fake IDs (washingtonpost.com readers have posted 168 comments about this item. View All Comments) By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 20, 2008; 1:53 PM The Supreme Court … Continue reading

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Pardon Sought For Imprisoned Agents

Pardon sought for imprisoned agents Chad Groening OneNewsNow 10/20/2008 5:00:00 AM A grassroots border security organization is encouraging citizens to continue to call the White House and demand that the president pardon two former Border Patrol agents who are serving … Continue reading

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Candidates Agree On Reforming Immigration

Candidates agree on reforming immigration Neither talks about it on campaign trail By Michael Collins The Ventura County Star (CA), October 20, 2008 http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/oct/20/candidates- agree-on-reforming-immigration/ Washington, DC — They may disagree over the war in Iraq or the fundamentals of … Continue reading

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Labour Have Said The Unsayable On Migration. But Do They Really Have The Guts To Crack Down?

Labour have said the unsayable on migration. But do they really have the guts to crack down? Mail ONLINE Last updated at 1:48 AM on 20th October 2008 Two days ago Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the government was to … Continue reading

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Virginia GOP Already Deep Into Post Mortems

Virginia GOP Already Deep Into Post-Mortems By Marc Fisher The Washington Post, October 19, 2008 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2008/10/virginia_ gop_already_deep_into.html?hpid=topnews Some Republicans say John McCain is in danger of becoming their party's first presidential candidate since 1964 to lose Virginia because he hasn't … Continue reading

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The Recession: No Solutiion To Large-Scale Immigration

The Recession: no Solution to Large Scale Immigration MIGRATION WATCH UK October 19, 2008 New research published today concludes that the widely forecast recession will not tackle the long term challenge of large scale immigration. The report was prepared by … Continue reading

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200 Indians Arrested In EU Human Smuggling Racket

200 Indians arrested in EU human smuggling racket PTI Sunday, 19 October , 2008, 00:22 Brussels: Fifteen members of an international human trafficking gang were today arrested in Belgium where they had brought nearly 200 Indian citizens seeking to enter … Continue reading

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"Cockroach" Has Lasting Power

Cockroach has lasting power Paul Gessell Canwest News Service Published: Saturday, October 18, 2008 Immigrants to Canada can be divided into two main categories. There are those who, usually after a period of hardship, achieve the goals that brought them … Continue reading

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Skepticism Over Minister’s Words

Scepticism over minister's words The Liverpool Echo Oct 18 2008 Opposition parties reacted sceptically to the immigration minister's call for a limit on the number of migrants coming to Britain. In his strongest comments on the subject since taking up … Continue reading

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Detainee Denies Murdering Air India Witness

Detainee denies murdering Air India witness Richard Cuthbertson Calgary Herald Published: Friday, October 17, 2008 A man once questioned by police in connection with the assassination of a high-profile B.C. newspaper publisher 10 years ago denied through his lawyer on … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigration: Obama, McCain Walk A Fine Line On Divisive Issue

Illegal immigration: Obama, McCain walk a fine line on divisive issue By Steven Oberbeck The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 10/17/2008 04:03:08 PM MDT Almost lost in all the commotion surrounding the credit crisis on Wall Street – and … Continue reading

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McCain Comes To Miami To Shore Up His Base

McCain comes to Miami to shore up his base BY BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com October 17, 2008 John McCain rides into Miami Friday on the hopes the city will offer the right change in scenery for a pro-immigration, anti-Castro Republican struggling … Continue reading

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