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Immigration Stirs Up Bound Brook, Again

Immigration Stirs Up Bound Brook, Again By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN The New York Times Published: August 8, 2008 FOUR years after the federal government found that Bound Brook (New Jersey) was unfairly targeting Hispanic residents for housing violations, the borough found … Continue reading

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Population Bombshell

Population bombshell SUE NEALES Chief reporter Mercury August 08, 2008 12:00am TASMANIA must develop ways of boosting its population and setting growth targets, opposition parties and business leaders said yesterday. They called for an urgent debate on a population target. … Continue reading

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Immigration Policies Need Serious Review

Immigration policies need serious review The Ottawa Citizen Published: Friday, August 08, 2008 Re: We are a land of immigrants, Aug. 6 . It was to be expected that Margret Kopala's excellent column calling for a moratorium on immigration would … Continue reading

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Ministers To Fight Ban On Migrant Checks

Ministers to fight ban on migrant checks Alan Travis, home affairs editor The Guardian, Thursday August 7 2008 Ministers are to fight a European Union move which could block Britain's use of advanced airline passenger lists to combat illegal immigration, … Continue reading

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An Old Scourge Persists In N.C.—Immigrants Face A Growing TB Risk

An old scourge persists in N.C. Immigrants face a growing TB risk By Kristin Collins The News & Observer (Raleigh), August 6, 2008 http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1166651.html State health officials say cases of tuberculosis among immigrants are rising, raising concerns that North Carolina … Continue reading

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Detainees Busted Prince William Jail Budget

Detainees Busted Pr. William Jail Budget Immigration Agency Pays $800,000 Difference By Kristen Mack The Washington Post, August 6, 2008; B08 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/05/ ST2008080503048.html Prince William County's jail spent nearly $800,000 more than expected to hold suspected illegal immigrants during the … Continue reading

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Texas Executes Mexican Killer Amid International Protests

Texas executes Mexican killer amid international protests By Reed Johnson Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2008 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-execute6- 2008aug06,0,2738895.story Mexico City — Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican national convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of two Texas girls, was executed … Continue reading

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Plan Would Keep More Illegal Immigrants From Jobs

Plan would keep more illegal immigrants from jobs By Nate Jenkins The Associated Press, August 5, 2008 http://www.fremonttribune.com/articles/2008/08/06/ap-state-ne/d92cd5 jo0.txt Lincoln (AP) — A top immigration official in President Bush's administration said federal agencies are working on an agreement that could … Continue reading

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Government Invites Illegal Immigrants To Turn Themselves In, But Offer Draws Few Takers

Government invites illegal immigrants to turn themselves in, but offer draws few takers By Amy Taxin The Associated Press, August 5, 2008 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap- immigration-self-deportation,1,5505321.story Santa Ana, CA (AP) — Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders … Continue reading

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Cesspit Exposes Immigration Scam

Cesspit exposes immigration scam BBC NEWS August 5, 2008 The stench from a home-made cesspit has exposed a group of 14 illegal immigrants crowded into a three-bedroom home in north-west London. Police raided the house in Wealdstone on Tuesday after … Continue reading

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Romanticism Is At The Heart Of Multiculturalism

Romanticism is at the roots of multiculturalism August 05, 2008 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in The Sydney Morning Herald, on how moral equivalence allows fanaticism to flourish in our midst: I WAS not born in the West. I was raised with … Continue reading

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Playing The Immigration Card Will Come With Some Risk For The Liberals

Playing the immigration card will come with some risk for the Liberals LAWRENCE MARTIN From Monday's Globe and Mail August 4, 2008 at 5:40 AM EDT This will look a bit strange. In the spring the Liberals acquiesced in the … Continue reading

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Bureau Gearing Up For ’10 Census

Bureau gearing up for '10 Census By Deborah Bulkeley The Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City), August 4, 2008 http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700248122,00.html The countdown to Census 2010 has started, and officials are working to ensure everyone in Utah is counted. The task … Continue reading

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Quick Deportations Raising New Alarm

Quick deportations raising new alarm Immigrant advocates say detainees may not understand rights By Vanessa Bauza The Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2008 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-deportation_ orderaug04,0,2397644.story When Emanuel Franco was arrested two years ago during a federal raid at a Chicago pallet … Continue reading

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Immigrants Facing Deportation By U.S. Hospitals

Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals By Deborah Sontag The New York Times, August 3, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/us/03deport.html?bl&ex=1217908800&en =8cf38e35a8549324&ei=5087%0A Jolomcu, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a … Continue reading

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More Going Back Home

More going back home Illegal-migrant numbers down By Stephen Wall The San Bernardino Sun (CA), August 3, 2008 http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10089107 Stepped-up enforcement measures have contributed to a 11 percent decline in the number of illegal immigrants in the country over the … Continue reading

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Hard-Liners Say Both Candidates Back Amnesty

Hard-liners say both candidates back amnesty Will their frustration force them to turn to a third party to protest U.S. immigration policy? By Eunice Moscoso The Cox News Service, August 3, 2008 http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/ 2008/08/02/ddn080308immigrationvote.html Washington, DC — Groups angry about … Continue reading

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Border Patrol Replacing Old Facilities

Border Patrol replacing old facilities By Martin J. Kidston The Associated Press, August 3, 2008 http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/08/03/news/mtregional /news08.txt Scobey, MT (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol's new station sits on a hill east of here, surrounded by barbed-wire fencing and a … Continue reading

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Sikhs Don’t Accept Apology For Komagata Maru

Sikhs don't accept apology for Komagata Maru JEREMY HAINSWORTH The Canadian Press August 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM EDT SURREY, B.C. Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Sunday for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in which hundreds of Indians seeking a … Continue reading

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Medicare Fraud Rampant in South Florida

Medicare fraud rampant in South Florida By Jay Weaver The Miami Herald (FL), August 3, 2008 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/627480.html Whenever Alexander McCray lights up his crack pipe, U.S. taxpayers help pay for his habit. McCray has defrauded Medicare by selling his government-issued … Continue reading

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