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Poor Get Poorer In An Affluent City

Poor get poorer in an affluent city Donovan Vincent City Hall Bureau TheStar.com October 6, 2009 A report examining the social health of this city has found “startling contradictions.” On the one hand, Toronto is becoming more prosperous. But with … Continue reading

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UK To Cut Pakistanis’ Visa Wait

UK to cut Pakistanis' visa wait The BBC News (U.K.), October 6, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8292941.stm Britain is to cut the time it takes to process visa applications by Pakistanis after a backlog delayed thousands. Speaking after talks in Islamabad, UK Home … Continue reading

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EU States Urged To Show Solidarity

EU states urged to show solidarity By Matthew Xuereb The Times of Malta, October 6, 2009 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091006/local/eu-states-urged-to-show-solidarity Malta is not alone when it deals with the problems of illegal migration and other EU member states should show solidarity in practice, … Continue reading

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Canada’s ‘Broken’ Refugee System Will Be Fixed: Kenney

Canada's 'broken' refugee system will be fixed: Kenney By Norma Greenaway The Canwest News Service (Canada), October 5, 2009 http://www.canada.com/news/Canada+broken+refugee+system+will+fixed+Kenney/2072558/story.html Ottawa — With the prospect of a fall election fading fast, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says he now aims to … Continue reading

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Afghan Translators Consider New Life In Canada

Afghan translators consider new life in Canada By Bruce Ward The Canwest News Service (Canada), October 5, 2009 http://www.canada.com/news/Afghan+translators+consider+life+Canada/2067794/story.html Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan — Afghan translators who work for the military and other federal agencies at Camp Nathan Smith are divided … Continue reading

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Jonathan Kay On Kyrt Westergaard, Free Speech And Leftist Refuseniks

Jonathan Kay on Kurt Westergaard, free speech, and leftist refuseniks Posted: October 05, 2009, 4:33 PM by Jonathan Kay URL: http://tinyurl.com/yb7crwm Has Jack Layton converted to Islam? That's what activist Tarek Fatah asked himself last month after the NDP leader … Continue reading

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Ex-Mexican President Vincente Fox Denounces Visa Ruling In Calgary

Ex-Mexican president Vicente Fox denounces visa ruling in Calgary. By Suzanne Wilton The Canwest News Service (Canada), October 5, 2009 http://www.canada.com/Mexican+president+Vicente+denounces+visa+ruling+Calgary/2072074/story.html Calgary — Canada is making a “big mistake'' by not backing down on its visa requirements for Mexican nationals, … Continue reading

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Sharp Rise In Chinese Arrests At Border

Sharp rise in Chinese arrests at border At least 261 have been caught this year in Arizona. The illegal immigrants can be big money for smugglers. By Sebastian Rotella The Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chinese-smuggling5-2009oct05,0,4972825.story Nogales, AZ — … Continue reading

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Calais Migrants To Get Flight Home And 1900 Pounds

Calais migrants to get flight home and 1,900 Hundreds of Afghan migrants will be flown home to Afghanistan from Calais on Tuesday with a 1,900 cash payment paid for by British and French taxpayers. By Peter Allen in Paris The … Continue reading

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Wilders Wants Integration Minister Charged

Wilders wants Integration Minister charged The Radio Netherlands News, October 5, 2009 http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/Wilders-wants-Integration-Minister-charged_56970.html Geert Wilders hopes to use an archaic law to bring charges against Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan for failing to answer questions on immigration. Wilders Freedom … Continue reading

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Most Minors Missing From Care In Dublin Are Chinese

Most minors missing from care in Dublin are Chinese By Jenny Hauser The Irish Times, October 5, 2009 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1005/ 1224255887682.html Some 80 per cent of minors who are reported missing from State care in Dublin are Chinese teenagers who had … Continue reading

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Historian Slams Finland’s Immigration And Asylum Policies

Historian slams Finland's immigration and asylum policies The Helsinki Times, October 5, 2009 http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/domestic-news/general/8242-historian-slams-finlands-immigration-and-asylum-policies-hs-.html Timo Vihavainen, a historian, was quoted as saying by national daily Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday that immigration was such a taboo in Finland that any suggestion … Continue reading

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Luxembourg Minister In Malta For Migration Talks

Luxembourg minister in Malta for migration talks The Times of Malta, October 5, 2009 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091005/local/luxembourg-minister-in-malta-for-migration-talks The Luxembourg Minister of Home Affairs, Jean-Marie Halsdorf, is in Malta for talks on illegal immigration and law enforcement. He was greeted at the airport … Continue reading

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Baroness Scotland Faces Questions Over Housekeeper’s Tax Affairs

Baroness Scotland faces questions over housekeepers tax affairs By John Bingham The Telegraph (U.K.), October 4, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6259379/Baroness-Scotland-faces-questions-over-housekeepers-tax-affairs.html The cleaner, a Tongan national who was working illegally in Britain after overstaying by five years on a student visa, claimed that … Continue reading

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Experts Recommend ‘turbo’ Naturalisation For Immigrants

Experts recommend turbo naturalisation for immigrants The Local (Germany), October 4, 2009 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091004-22337.html Germanys next government should speed up the process for granting citizenship to immigrants, according to a new report by a group of migration experts. As the Christian … Continue reading

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The Party’s Over For Chinese In Africa

The party's over for Chinese in Africa By Jonathan Manthorpe Vancouver Sun October 4, 2009 While many ordinary Africans have for years complained and even rioted over the damaging effects of China's decade of targeted investment in the continent, there … Continue reading

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Columbia University Study Ties Southeast Drought To Population

Columbia University study ties southeast drought to population Digital Journal Posted Oct 4, 2009 by Michael Krebs With the world's governments working feverishly to create climate change legislation standards, a Columbia University study on drought conditions in the southeast disputes … Continue reading

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Politics Count In Census

Politics count in census Officials fear tally will be tainted By Oscar Avila The Chicago Tribune, October 4, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-bd-census-politics-04-oct04,0,2149033.story Census Director Robert Groves is a by-the-books statistician, but he recently made a heartfelt plea to a congressional subcommittee: If … Continue reading

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New Mexican Consul Says U.S. Influx Bad For Mexico Too

New Mexican consul says U.S. influx is bad for Mexico, too By Stephen Magagnini The Sacramento Bee, October 4, 2009 http://www.sacbee.com/news/story/2229189.html The Mexican government has sent one of its top experts on Mexican migration to Sacramento to dispel myths about … Continue reading

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PEI’s Big Population Boom

PEI's big immigration boom Sorry, Anne of Green Gables, but there's a new reason people are coming to PEI Erin Anderssen From Saturday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Saturday, Oct. 03, 2009 03:33AM EDT At international immigration fairs, where … Continue reading

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