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Kenney Calls Olympic Refugee Claims ‘Ridiculous’

Kenney calls Olympic refugee claims ridiculous' Immigration Minister reports the seven people who have claimed refugee status after coming to watch the Olympics are from Hungary, Russia and Japan The Canadian Press, March 3, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/kenney-calls-olympic-refugee-claims-ridiculous/article1487876/ Immigration Minister Jason Kenney … Continue reading

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Refugees R Us

Refugees R Us Barbara Kay Posted: March 03, 2010, 9:00 AM by NP Editor On Sunday, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney praised a Federal Court ruling denying citizenship to Syrian immigrant Nasoh Raslan. At trial, it was revealed that Mr. Raslans … Continue reading

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BI Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Chinese To Canada

BI thwarts attempt to smuggle Chinese to Canada abs-cbnNEWS.com 03/03/2010 3:52 PM MANILA, Philippines Government authorities foiled an attempt by an international human trafficking syndicate to smuggle illegal aliens to Canada using Manila as transit point. The Bureau of Immigration … Continue reading

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Flight To Vietnam Ends Tran’s Long Battle Over Canadian Immigration Rules

Flight to Vietnam ends Tran's long battle over Canadian immigration rules By Richard Cuthbertson and Jason Van Rassel Calgary Herald March 3, 2010 CALGARY – Pushing a cart holding his luggage, reputed Calgary gangster Jackie Tran arrived at the Calgary … Continue reading

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Rasmussen Report: 67% Of Americans Say Illegal Immigrants Are A Strain

POLITICAL CLASS VS. ORDINARY PEOPLE Rasmussen report: 67% of Americans say illegal immigrants are a strain http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_ events/immigration/67_say_illegal_immigrants_are_major_strain_on_ u_s_budget As the country wrestles with a future of historic-level deficits, 67% of U.S. voters say that illegal immigrants are a significant … Continue reading

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Asylum Seekers Forced To Pretend To Shoot Guns By Immigration Officials To Stay In UK

Asylum seekers forced to pretend to shoot guns by immigration officials to stay in UK Immigration officials gave each other a prize of a toy monkey if they let an asylum seeker stay in the UK, it has been claimed. … Continue reading

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Marh 3, 2010: Suspected People-Smugglers On Trial In Paris

Suspected people-smugglers on trial in Paris Agence France Presse, March 3, 2010 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100303/world-news/suspected-people-smugglers-on-trial-in-paris A group of 28 suspected members of one of Europe's biggest people-smuggling rings went on trial today in Paris where they risk jail sentences of up to … Continue reading

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Anti-Immigrant Party Strong In Dutch Polls

Anti-Immigrant Party Strong in Dutch Polls By Maarten Van Tartwijk The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541304575099563274463170.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Dutch voters are turning out in slightly higher-than-usual numbers for local elections Wednesday which political observers are using to gauge the popularity … Continue reading

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Experts Stress Illegal Immigrants’ Need For Health Services

Experts stress illegal immigrants' need for health services Deutsche Presse Agentur, March 3, 2010 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/312308,experts-stress-illegal-immigrants-need-for-health-services.html Madrid (DPA) — Migrant health is becoming a major challenge to Western health care systems, experts said Wednesday, stressing the need to give migrants access … Continue reading

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Seven Spectators To Olympics Seeking To Stay In Canada With Refugee Status

Seven spectators to Olympics seeking to stay in Canada with refugee status By: The Canadian Press 2/03/2010 6:57 AM VANCOUVER – Seven people who told officials they entered Canada as spectators to the Vancouver Winter Olympics are seeking refugee status … Continue reading

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Quebec Government Forced Woman From Classroom For Refusing To Remove Face Covering

Que. government forced woman from classroom for refusing to remove face covering By Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press Tue Mar 2, 7:36 PM MONTREAL – After months of balancing a woman's religious beliefs with her desire to learn French, the … Continue reading

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Stalled Border Security Nomination Worries Former Commissioners

Stalled border security nomination worries former commissioners By Katherine McIntire Government Executive, March 2, 2010 http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0310/030210kp1.htm A gap in leadership at the Customs and Border Protection bureau has former commissioners concerned. CBP ex-chiefs Ralph Basham and Robert Bonner and New … Continue reading

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Groups That Want To Reduce Immigration Warn Of An Unsustainable Population Surge

Groups that want to reduce immigration warn of an unsustainable population surge By Luke X. Martin The Medill Reports (Northwestern Univ., March 2, 2010) http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=158880 Some national groups advocating reduced immigration contend that the United States faces unsustainable population growth, … Continue reading

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Tuition Inequity Spawns Pro-Student Bill

Tuition inequity spawns pro-student bill By Chad Groening One News Now, March 2, 2010 http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=918750 A border-enforcement advocacy organization says a law introduced in Congress could go a long way in preventing states from offering discounted in-state tuition benefits to … Continue reading

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Pelosi Says Abortion, Immigration Not Central To Health Bill

Pelosi says abortion, immigration not central to health bill By Jordan Fabian The Hill (Washington, DC), March 2, 2010 http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/84569-pelosi-says-abortion-immigration-not-central-to-health-bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that abortion and immigration are not central to the Democrats' healthcare reform overhaul, even … Continue reading

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House Plan Touts E-Verify

House plan touts E-Verify But migration move takes on long odds By Stephen Wall The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA), March 2, 2010 http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_14500791 A bipartisan group of Republicans and conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives has introduced … Continue reading

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New Jail Program Targets Illegal Immigrants

New jail program targets illegal immigrants By Julie Johnson The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), March 2, 2010 http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100302/NEWS/100309896 Sonoma County this week will become the first in the Bay Area in which anyone booked into the county jail automatically … Continue reading

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Trafficking Probe Nets 10 Mexican Migration Agents

Trafficking probe nets 10 Mexican migration agents The Associated Press Tuesday, March 2, 2010; 10:36 PM MEXICO CITY — Mexico's interior department says prosecutors have detained 10 Mexican immigration agents and three airline workers at Cancun's international airport on suspicion … Continue reading

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Australia Accepts Malaysian Transsexual As Refugee

Australia accepts Malaysian transsexual as refugee Posted : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:54:11 GMT By : dpa Category : Australasia (World) Sydney—-A Malaysian transsexual has won refugee status in Australia after persuading an immigration review tribunal that she risked persecution … Continue reading

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Hockey Night In Canada–2020

Hockey Night In Canada–2020 By Tim Murray March 1, 2010 Item: Vancouver Sun journalist Pete McMartin claims, in his column of February 27, that the next Canadian Olympic team should consist of ethnic minorities in the same proportions that they … Continue reading

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