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Migration Boom Swells Australia

Migration boom swells Australia Jessica Irvine Economics Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald December 5, 2007 AUSTRALIA'S population is growing at its fastest rate in nearly two decades, thanks to rising fertility rates and an immigration boom bigger than that during … Continue reading

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Asylum Rules To Follow EU Directive

Asylum rules to follow EU directive By Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent The Irish Examiner 04 December 2007 IRELAND rules for processing and granting asylum will come into line with the rest of the EU once the draft Immigration, Residence and … Continue reading

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Republic of Ireland Launches New Automated Fingerprint Identification System

Republic of Ireland launches new automated Fingerprint Identification System PublicTechnology.net 4 Dec 2007 – 07:30 am The Republic of Ireland has launched the first phase of its new Automated Fingerprint Identification System for An Garda Siochana and the Irish Naturalisation … Continue reading

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French Decline Bad News For Quebec, Group Says

French decline bad news for Quebec, group says Jason Magder, The Gazette Published: Tuesday, December 04 The latest census figures are bad news for French both within Canada and Quebec, says a French-language rights group. Jean Dorion, the president of … Continue reading

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Flood Of Immigrants Straining Canadian Cities

Flood of immigrants straining Canadian cities Updated Tue. Dec. 4 2007 8:44 AM ET The Canadian Press TORONTO — Canada's three largest cities are struggling to cope with a flood of newcomers primarily from China, India, the Philippines and Pakistan … Continue reading

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Flood Of Mexicans Delays Other Refuge-Seekers

Flood of Mexicans delays other refuge-seekers GLORIA GALLOWAY From Tuesday's Globe and Mail December 4, 2007 at 4:10 AM EST OTTAWA The backlog of cases waiting to be heard by the federal Immigration and Refugee Board is ballooning, but Mexicans … Continue reading

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Environment Report Says Urban Sprawl Strangling Southern Ontario

Environment report says urban sprawl strangling southern Ontario The Canadian Press Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 The governing Liberals must have a new vision for Ontario's north and crack down on urban sprawl in the south by cutting down … Continue reading

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86% Of Immigrants Go To Three Provinces

86% of immigrants go to three provinces CanWest News Service December 4, 2007 By and large, immigrants choose the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia as their new homes, according to a report on immigration made public by Statistics … Continue reading

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Asia, Mideast Immigrants Take Lead In Canada: Census

Asia, Mideast immigrants take lead in Canada: census AFP December 4, 2007 OTTAWA (AFP) Asians and Mideasterners made up the largest number of immigrants to Canada from 2001 to 2006, taking to one-fifth the proportion of Canadians whose mother tongue … Continue reading

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Canada’s Foreign-Born Population At 75-Year Peak

Canada's foreign-born population at 75-year peak Reuters Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:49 PM EST OTTAWA (Reuters) – One in five people in Canada last year was born in another country, the highest proportion since the 1930s, according to a census … Continue reading

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Proposals Would Put Limits On Citizenship For Newborns

Proposals would put limits on citizenship for newborns Measures appear to be aimed at babies of illegal entrants By Paul Davenport The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.04.2007 PHOENIX– Arizona voters may be asked to decide whether to prohibit the … Continue reading

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Nurses Told To Turn Beds To Mecca

NURSES TOLD TO TURN MUSLIMS BEDS TO MECCA Tuesday December 4,2007 Paul Jeeves Express.co.uk OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients beds so they face towards Mecca. The lengthy … Continue reading

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Indians Among Top Three Of Legal Immigrants In U.S.

Indians among top three of legal immigrants in US India Post.com Monday, 12.03.2007, 01:22am (GMT-7) WASHINGTON: India is among the top three countries sending people to the US, where one in eight comes from outside America, bringing the total immigrant … Continue reading

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From Stand In Long Island Slavery Case, A Snapshot Of A Hidden U.S. Problem

From Stand in Long Island Slavery Case, a Snapshot of a Hidden U.S. Problem By PAUL VITELLO Published: December 3, 2007 CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., Nov. 30 The two tiny Indonesian women know just a handful of English words. They know … Continue reading

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Border Agents Appeal Verdict

Border agents appeal verdict By Jerry Seper and Sara A. Carter The Washington Times December 3, 2007 Attorneys for two former U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to lengthy prison terms for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he … Continue reading

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An Idyllic Greek Island Becomes The New Frontier For African Migrants

An idyllic Greek island becomes the new frontier for African migrants Hazardous journeys end in small but perilous voyage from Turkey to Samos Helena Smith in Samos Monday December 3, 2007 The Guardian For two days they huddled together in … Continue reading

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Greek Interior Minister Urges EU To Take Action Against Illegal Immigration

Greek interior minister urges EU to take action against illegal immigration The Associated Press Published: December 3, 2007 NICOSIA, Cyprus: The European Union must help protect its southeastern borders in Greece and Cyprus from the influx of illegal migrants, Greece's … Continue reading

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A Leader Of Jihad In Limbo In Norway ‘After His Time’

A leader of jihad in limbo in Norway 'after his time' By Ivar Ekman International Herald Tribune Published: December 3, 2007 OSLO: Mullah Krekar, once a jihadi superstar, has faded from the international limelight, but in Norway he won't go … Continue reading

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Spy Drone To Patrol Coast In Hunt For People Smugglers

Spy drone to patrol coast in hunt for people smugglers Christine Finn and Abul Taher From The Sunday Times December 2, 2007 POLICE and border control authorities are to use an unmanned aircraft to patrol the south coast to catch … Continue reading

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Immigration Numbers To Be Put Under Microscope

Immigration numbers to be put under microscope Updated Sun. Dec. 2 2007 2:31 PM ET The Canadian Press TORONTO — Canada's immigrants will take the spotlight Tuesday when new census information is released showing just how many foreign-born people call … Continue reading

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