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Turkey Detains Seven Over Immigrant Boat Tragedy

Turkey detains seven over immigrant boat tragedy: Anatolia TurkishPress.com Published: 12/15/2007 ANKARA – Turkish police on Saturday arrested seven suspected human traffickers following the deaths of at least 50 illegal migrants in a boat tragedy in the Aegean Sea, the … Continue reading

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Feel Like A Sucker? Flawed Refugee System Leaves Canadians With Little Confidence

Feel Like A Sucker? Flawed Refugee System Leaves Canadians With Little Confidence Mindy Jacobs Edmonton Sun December 14, 2007 If it weren't for eagle-eyed citizens, a rapist who went on the lam while under a deportation order might still be … Continue reading

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Let Singh’s Supporters Set Him Up Financially–In India

Let Singh's supporters set him up financially — in India Keeping quadriplegic in Canada just damages Sikh community's standing Pete McMartin, Vancouver Sun Published: Thursday, December 13, 2007 In the news photos and television footage of that day, Laibar Singh … Continue reading

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Mulcair Wades Into The Accommodation Debate

Mulcair wades into the accommodation debate The Canadian Press Updated Thu. Dec. 13 2007 6:01 PM ET MONTREAL — The reaction of some of Quebec's political leaders to anxieties about immigration has smacked of dishonesty and gutlessness, says the NDP … Continue reading

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Terror Group Founder Rallying Behind Paralyzed Refugee Claimant

Terror group founder rallying behind paralyzed refugee claimant Kim Bolan, CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 A key figure in the campaign to keep a paralyzed refugee claimant in Canada is the founder of the banned terrorist organization … Continue reading

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GAO Audit Warns Of Visa Terror Risk

GAO audit warns of visa terror risk Fraud found in 'diversity' lottery involving 50,000 immigrants a year By JAMES PINKERTON Houston Chronicle Dec. 1, 2007, 9:28AM A look at the diversity visa process A little-known immigration lottery that grants 50,000 … Continue reading

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Globe’s Marina Jiminez On Future Of Multiculturalism

Globe's Marina Jimez on future of multiculturalism Globe and Mail Update December 11, 2007 at 3:00 PM EST For years, Canadians have successfully proselytized overseas the benefits of multiculturalism in our country,” The Globe's Marina Jimez wrote in Saturday's Globe … Continue reading

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December 8, 2007L Tone Down Attitudes Versus Immigration, Calderon Says

Tone down attitudes vs. immigration, Caldern says The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.08.2007 MEXICO CITY President Felipe Caldern on Friday told Mexican consuls to the U.S. and Canada that they must work to “neutralize” anti-immigrant attitudes north of the … Continue reading

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In A Europe Torn Over Mosques, A City Offers Accommodation

In a Europe Torn Over Mosques, A City Offers Accommodation By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, December 9, 2007; Page A01 CRETEIL, France — On a recent Friday, 200 Muslim worshipers crowded into a former carpentry workshop here … Continue reading

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Rudd Sends Home 16 Asylum Seekers

Rudd sends home 16 asylum seekers Brendan Nicholson The Age December 8, 2007 THE Rudd Government is about to send home its first asylum seekers the 16 Indonesians rescued from their sinking boat in the Timor Sea during the election … Continue reading

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Bill Aims To Keep Track Of Foreign Students

Bill aims to keep track of foreign students By Audrey Hudson December 7, 2007 www.House.gov Rep. Gus Bilirakis, Florida Republican, wants colleges to report to the government when foreign students are unaccounted for in order to make sure they are … Continue reading

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U.S. Not Offsetting Costs of Illegals, Report Says

U.S. not offsetting costs of illegals, report says By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times December 7, 2007 Illegal aliens are a net drain on state and local governments, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that … Continue reading

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Rudd To Set Up Haneef Inquiry

Rudd To Set Up Haneef Inquiry Hedley Thomas The Australian December 07, 2007 DOCTOR Mohamed Haneef and his legal team will get their wish soon, with the Rudd Government preparing to establish a judicial inquiry into the handling of the … Continue reading

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Brokered Brides Seeking Better Life

Brokered brides seeking better life By ANDREW MARTON Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT/Ralph Lauer December 7, 2007 Natasha Henderson was a Russian bride brought over by an older man that had been married twice before with five children. She is now divorced … Continue reading

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Pair Arrested In Green Card Marriage That Resulted From Web Site

Pair arrested in green card marriage that resulted from Web ads By Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 7, 2007 After more than a year of what federal prosecutors allege is a sham marriage, Kalinina and her 30-year-old … Continue reading

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Province Withholding More Documents On N.S. Immigrant File

Province withholding more documents on N.S. immigration file The Canadian Press December 6, 2007 HALIFAX – Nova Scotia's auditor general and a legislative committee are being denied access to key documents related to a failed provincial immigration program, prompting a … Continue reading

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Political Parties Clash Over How To Attract Immigrants

Political parties clash over how to attract immigrants Angela Hall, Leader-Post Published: Thursday, December 06, 2007 The number of immigrants who've come to call Saskatchewan home leaves room for improvement, provincial politicians from both parties agree. But while the Saskatchewan … Continue reading

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Pearce: Impetus Builds To Let Police Ask Immigration Status

Pearce: Impetus builds to let police ask immigration status By Jacques Billeaud The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.06.2007 PHOENIX A push to get police departments to change policies discouraging officers from asking people whether they are in the … Continue reading

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Texas Landowners To Be Given Ultimatum On Border Fence

Texas landowners to be given ultimatum on border fence Chertoff allowing them last chance for access before taking court action By SUZANNE GAMBOA Associated Press Dec. 6, 2007, 11:45PM WASHINGTON Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is giving Texas landowners opposed … Continue reading

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Environmentalists Worry Border Fence-Building Will Threaten Arizona River

Environmentalists worry border fence-building will threaten AZ river By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN Associated Press Writer Dec. 6, 2007 03:04 PM PALOMINAS, Ariz. (AP) – Before sealing off the border became the priority it is today, a visitor would have gotten … Continue reading

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