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Fast-Track System For Asylum-Seekers Leads To Race Attacks, Police Tell Reid

Fast-track system for asylum-seekers leads to race attacks, police tell Reid Ben Leapman, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:24am GMT 11/03/2007 A scheme intended to speed up the asylum system is putting extra pressure on police, colleges and housing providers, the … Continue reading

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81 Chinese Migrants Detained In Mexico

81 Chinese Immigrants Detained in Mexico The Associated Press Saturday, March 10, 2007; 1:20 AM CANCUN, Mexico — Federal police detained 81 Chinese immigrants and 22 immigration agents on Friday after the Chinese were discovered hiding in the Cancun airport … Continue reading

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Academic Hits Back In Migration Row

Academic hits back in migration row By David Coleman, Professor of Demography, Oxford University Last Updated: 1:44am GMT 09/03/2007 The Telegraph (How forecasts by Migrationwatch stirred up a political hornets' nest) By now most readers will be aware of my … Continue reading

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After Once Rushing To Germany, Turks Cool To Australia and New Zealand

After once rushing to Germany, Turks cool to Australia and New Zealand Today's Zaman March 9, 2007 When Australia and New Zealand declared they would recruit 20,000 skilled and intermediary workers from Turkey, a mere 140 Turks applied to the … Continue reading

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Councils Facing 100 Million Pound Bill To Care For Sick and Destitute Migrants

Councils facing 100m bill to care for sick and destitute migrants 'Tens of thousands' left in limbo without state aid Home Office should pay, authorities tell Reid Diane Taylor and Hugh Muir Thursday March 8, 2007 The Guardian Councils across … Continue reading

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Student Group Given 428,000 Pounds From Lottery "Good Causes" Fund

Student group given 428,000 from Lottery 'good causes' fund By Philip Johnston Last Updated: 1:57am GMT 08/03/2007 The Telegraph The group that has called for Prof Coleman's removal is the Oxford branch of Star – Student Action for Refugees. The … Continue reading

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Nepalese Gurkhas Win British Benefits

Nepalese Gurkhas Win British Benefits By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 8, 2007 The New York Times Filed at 12:07 p.m. ET LONDON (AP) — Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who have been fighting for Britain but receiving unequal retirement benefits since … Continue reading

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Pacific Migrants Set Record (New Zealand)

Pacific migrants set record 5:00AM Thursday March 08, 2007 New Zealand Herald (Cook Islanders, Niueans and Tokelauans have the right to enter New Zealand. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey) A record number of Pacific people are coming to New Zealand to … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigration Is "Theft From Taxpayers"

Illegal immigration 'is theft from taxpayers' BILL JACOBS The Scotsman March 7, 2007 HOME Secretary John Reid today branded illegal immigration as theft from the taxpayer. He was defending plans to introduce a text messaging scheme to warn visitors to … Continue reading

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Women For Sale In The Gatwick Slave Auctions

Women for sale in the Gatwick slave auctions 07.03.07 ThisisLondon.co.uk Sex-slave gangs are making the UK their number one target Women are being sold into prostitution in modern day “slave auctions” at Britain's airports, it emerged yesterday. The illegal immigrants … Continue reading

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Taxpayers’ Cash Funding Fight To Sack Academic

Taxpayers' cash funding fight to sack academic By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Last Updated: 1:53am GMT 07/03/2007 The Telegraph Taxpayers are helping to fund the national body of a student organisation trying to get an academic sacked because of … Continue reading

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Downer To Honour Boat People Obligations

Downer to honour boat people obligations March 5, 2007 – 7:54AM The Age (Melbourne) Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says Australia will honour its international obligations towards the latest boat arrivals, a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers. Mr Downer, who … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrants Hope For Mercy From Minister

Illegal immigrants hope for mercy from minister (Last chance … Fijian-born Sailesh Chandra with his Australian wife Michelle Singh and Australian-born daughters Angelica, 1, and Alyssa, 3, at their home at Warwick Farm. Photo: Jacky Ghossein) Frank Walker March 4, … Continue reading

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Students Try To Oust MigrationWatch Don

Students try to oust MigrationWatch don By Graeme Paton, Education Correspondent March 3, 2007 Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 03/03/2007 The Telegraph Academics last night condemned as a witch-hunt a student campaign to oust an Oxford don because of his links … Continue reading

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Sri Lankans Look Set To Be Moved To Nauru

Sri Lankans look set to be moved to Nauru Mark Forbes, Jakarta March 3, 2007 The Age (Melbourne) A GROUP of Sri Lankan asylum seekers looks set to be processed on the Pacific Island of Nauru after Indonesia said it … Continue reading

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Former New Zealand Immigration Minister Cleared

Former NZ Immigration Minister Cleared Associated Press 03.02.07, 11:54 AM ET A New Zealand jury cleared a former immigration minister Friday after he was accused of fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to help Chinese migrants circumvent the law … Continue reading

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Gwynne Dyer On Security Fences

Gwynne Dyer on Security Fences [Allan Wall] @ 7:50 pm March 1, 2007 Is the U.S. wall on the Mexican border (such as it exists and might exist) a unique case among the worlds borders ? Not at all, says … Continue reading

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The Need For National Unity—The Belgian Lesson

The Need for National Unity The Belgian Lesson By Paul M. Weyrich March 01, 2007 Free Congress Foundation When Americans think of Belgium — if they do so at all — they probably think of a small European country lying … Continue reading

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Detainees’ Protest Halts Deportation

Detainees' protest halts deportation Andra Jackson March 1, 2007 The Age (Melbourne) A MASS protest by detainees at Villawood detention centre has halted the deportation to China of a Falun Gong practitioner, An Xiang Tao. Mr An, 35, was to … Continue reading

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More Sri Lankans Waiting To Seek Asylum

More Sri Lankans waiting to seek asylum Andra Jackson The Age (Melbourne) February 28, 2007 ANOTHER group of at least 150 Sri Lankans asylum seekers is in Indonesia waiting for boats to smuggle them into Australia, it was claimed yesterday. … Continue reading

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