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"Dancing Santa" Loses Plea To Stay

'Dancing Santa' loses plea to stay Jonathan Woodward, Vancouver Sun Published: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 NORTH VANCOUVER – A 70-year-old refugee claimant who played an Iranian “dancing Santa” during cultural festivals and protested against the country's regime has lost his … Continue reading

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Supporters Of Disabled Man To Present Anti-Deportation Petition And Hold Rally

Supporters of disabled man to present anti-deportation petition and hold rally Refugee claimant's flight home to hospital in India scheduled for next Monday Kelly Sinoski, with files from Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver Sun Published: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Supporters of paralysed … Continue reading

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D.M.V. Chief Is Pressed To Defend Plan To Give Licences To Illegal Immigrants

D.M.V. Chief Is Pressed to Defend Plan to Give Licenses to Illegal Immigrants By DANNY HAKIM The New York Times October 16, 2007 ALBANY, Oct. 15 In a hearing punctuated by angry exchanges about terrorism, Senate Republicans grilled the commissioner … Continue reading

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Citizenship Via Grandparents

Citizenship via Grandparents Israeli Parents Make Use Of U.S. Clause That Lets Kids Become Americans By MIRIAM JORDAN October 16, 2007; Page A6 A swelling number of Israelis are flying to the U.S., armed with tattered U.S. high school diplomas … Continue reading

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Fleeing To U.S., Cubans’ First Stop Is Often Mexico

Fleeing to U.S., Cubans First Stop Is Often Mexico The escape from Cuba to the United States increasingly includes a trip by boat to a place like Isla Mujeres, a coastal Mexican island whose harbor is shown here. By MARC … Continue reading

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Mortgages To Illegal Immigrants Come Under Fire

Mortgages to Illegal Immigrants Come Under Fire Produced by Ashley Gross on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 The Chicago Public Radio Immigrants have become key to fueling growth in the Chicago area housing market in recent years. According to a report … Continue reading

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2nd Arizona Initiative Proposed On Illegal Hiring

2nd Arizona initiative proposed on illegal hiring Supporters need 153,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot. By PAUL DAVENPORT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, October 16, 2007 PHOENIX –A second ballot measure imposing sanctions on employers for hiring illegal … Continue reading

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Commission Looks Into Quebec’s Future

Commission looks into Quebec's future Jeff Heinrich, The Gazette Published: Monday, October 15 ST. HYACINTHE – What will Quebec look like 100 years from now? That's one of the questions being asked today at the Bouchard-Taylor commission hearings into “reasonable … Continue reading

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Cold Realities Greet Mexican Immigrants

Cold realities greet Mexican migrants Roberta Pennington, Windsor Star Published: Monday, October 15, 2007 The sky was bright and the autumn air brisk with a cool wind as 58-year-old Galdina Leon walked with her son and granddaughter near the river … Continue reading

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Health Care A Hidden Cost, Immigrant Families Learn

Health care a hidden cost, immigrant families learn Three-month delay to receive medicare drives new arrivals into debt, protesters say KAZI STASTNA, The Gazette Published: Monday, October 15 Plane fare, visa fees, rent and household expenses were all things Bahia … Continue reading

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DHS Report: 270,000 Indians In U.S. Illegally

Title: DHS report: 270,000 Indians in U.S. illegally Source: India New England URL Source: http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/dirmod.asp? sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle Published: Oct 15, 2007 Author: ADAM SMITH Post Date: 2007-10-15 22:44:31 by Willie Green 50 Comments Immigrants from India continue to make up the … Continue reading

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Why U.S. Immigration Crackdown Is Stalled

Why US immigration crackdown is stalled By Alexandra Marks 10/15/2007 The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com) Mismatched Social Security numbers led to illegal workers but also legal ones, critics say. NEW YORK (The Christian Science Monitor) — His name is Enrique. … Continue reading

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States’ Immigration Policies Diverge—In Differences, Some See Obstacles For A National Law

States' Immigrant Policies Diverge In Differences, Some See Obstacles For a National Law By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 15, 2007; Page A01 washingtonpost.com readers have posted 198 comments about this item. NEW YORK — In New … Continue reading

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Governor Vetoes California Dream Act

Governor vetoes California Dream Act By AMY TAXIN and JULIE GALLEGO THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Monday, October 15, 2007 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a Senate bill that would have given undocumented immigrant college students access to state financial aid. In … Continue reading

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Chertoff May Void Judges’ Order To Halt Border Fence

Tucson Region Chertoff may void judge's order to halt border fence By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services Tucson, Arizona Published: 10.14.2007 PHOENIX The nation's top security official may use his power to unilaterally trump a federal court order halting construction … Continue reading

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"Phantom’ Residents To Lose Status

Phantom' residents to lose status Cut-off looms for workers in Gulf states who have Canadian landed status but don't actually live here Oct 14, 2007 04:30 AM Nicholas Keung Immigration/Diversity Reporter As the first of Canada's new Permanent Resident cards … Continue reading

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Myanmar Refugees Strain Aid Groups

Myanmar Refugees Strain Aid Groups By KEN KUSMER The Associated Press Saturday, October 13, 2007; 8:53 PM INDIANAPOLIS — The modest apartment where Van Tin Lian Zathang, his wife, Biak, and their two daughters live sits in a tidy, sprawling … Continue reading

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More Being Forced Out Of U.S., But Criminal Deportations Decline, Latest Data Indicates

More being forced out of U.S. But criminal deportations declined, latest data indicate By JAMES PINKERTON Oct. 13, 2007, 1:02AM Houston Chronicle The federal government says it has steadily increased the number of illegal immigrants it removes from the country … Continue reading

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For Refugees, It’s Been A Hard, Dazed Journey Into The Light

For refugees, it's been a hard, dazed journey into the light Andra Jackson The Age October 13, 2007 JUST 16, Issiah Lado has taken a very long journey. He arrived in Australia as a child refugee and for a time, … Continue reading

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UN Upbraids Canada For Sending Claimants Back To U.S.

UN upbraids Canada for sending claimants back to U.S. SUE BAILEY The Canadian Press October 12, 2007 OTTAWA — Border officials are summarily sending refugee claimants back to the United States in breach of Canada's duty to let them seek … Continue reading

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