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Feds Give Sheriff A Tough Choice On Immigration Enforcement

Feds give sheriff a tough choice on immigration enforcement If sweeps not altered, jail help will be lost The Arizona Republic (Phoenix) August 5, 2009 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/05/20090805sweepstats0805.html It was another sweep, with more arrests and complaints of racial profiling. Valley residents … Continue reading

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The Hutterites Meet Herouxville

The Hutterites meet Hrouxville Kalli Anderson Globe and Mail Tuesday, Aug. 04, 2009 03:27PM EDT Nothing solves the problem of a slow summer news week in Quebec like a juicy reasonable accommodation story to chew on. Proving once again that … Continue reading

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Algerian Removed From Church Sanctuary Is Back In Quebec

Algerian removed from church sanctuary is back in Quebec After 5 years in the U.S., Mohamed Cherfi has permanant resident status in Canada CBC News Last Updated: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 | 10:21 AM ET An Algerian man arrested while … Continue reading

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No To Islamic Law

No to Islamic Law By: Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, August 04, 2009 Those of us who argue against Shari'a are sometimes asked why Islamic law poses a problem when modern Western societies long ago accommodated Halakha, or Jewish law. The … Continue reading

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Obama’s Immigration Policies Under Fire

Obama's Immigration Policies Under Fire By Eric S. Page NBC San Diego August 4, 2009 http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/Obamas-Immigration-Policies-Under-Fire-52451167.html If you believe successful government makes nearly everyone unhappy on some level, then the White House's immigration policy is a winner. Although Barack Obama … Continue reading

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DMV Busts Fake Documents Lab

DMV busts alleged fake documents lab The WRAL News (Raleigh), August 4, 2009 http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5727015/ Clinton, N.C. The state Division of Motor Vehicles License and Theft Bureau has charged three Sampson County men with manufacturing false or fraudulent identification documents. Luis … Continue reading

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Immigrants Who Jeer At British Troops In The Street To Be Barred From Gaining Citizenship

Immigrants who jeer at British troops in the street to be barred from gaining citizenship By James Slack Mail Online Last updated at 10:44 AM on 03rd August 2009 Immigrants who jeer at British troops in the street or 'show … Continue reading

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Jobs Or No Jobs, Immigrants Stay In Lee County

Jobs or no jobs, immigrants stay in Lee County By Janine Zeitlin The News-Press (Fort Myers, FL), August 2, 2009 http://news-press.com/article/20090802/NEWS01/908020368 The workday has begun. It's after 9 a.m. but the advancing hour does not deter the more than 50 … Continue reading

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Lack Of Funds And Space Frees Suspects

Lack of funds and space frees suspects Data show ICE releases alleged illegal immigrants, violent convicts By Susan Carroll The Houston Chronicle, August 2, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/immigration/6557485.html U.S. immigration officials have released from federal custody hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants accused … Continue reading

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What To Expect When The World’s Expecting

What to expect when the world's expecting? … resentment, violence, a loss of economic clout and political means, just for starters. Don Cayo explains why policy-makers must pay attention to growth and consequences. By Don Cayo Canwest News Service August … Continue reading

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American Terrorists In Somalia

American Terrorists In Somalia An alarming number of young Somali-Americans are returning to the Horn of Africa to fight for a jihadist group. By Sean J. Miller The National Journal, August 1, 2009 http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/ [Subscription] The FBI is struggling to … Continue reading

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Thousands Honor Slain Border Agent

Thousands honor slain border agent `What he did was confront a situation where uncertainty and doubt abound,' agency's chief says of Robert Rosas By Sandra Dibble and Leslie Berestein The San Diego Union-Tribune, August 1, 2009 http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/01/1n1rosas232023-thousands-honor-slain-border-agent/?tijuana&zIndex=142264 El Centro, CA … Continue reading

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Crackdown On 80,000 Immigrant Wives With Free Pass To Britain

Crackdown on 80,000 immigrant wives with free pass to Britain By Simon Walters, Political Editor Last updated at 10:03 PM on 01st August 2009 A highly controversial crackdown on immigrants accused of abusing welfare handouts is to be unveiled by … Continue reading

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Canada’s Immigration And Refugee Laws Need An Overhaul

Canada's refugee and immigration laws need an overhaul Why do we have the world's highest acceptance rate? JULIE TAUB The Gazette July 31, 2009 Canada's immigration and refugee system is broken. The Immigration and Refugee Act is innately flawed and … Continue reading

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Arizona Sheriff Balks At Feds’ Enforcement Change

Arizona sheriff balks at feds' enforcement change By Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press, July 31, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4nY72M0hFVOHUzIrqYpD67DoBxgD99PKJR80 Phoenix (AP) — The self-proclaimed 'toughest sheriff in America' has never gotten so much resistance from the federal government. The Homeland Security … Continue reading

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Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals

Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals By Jennifer Ludden The NPR News, July 31, 2009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111353362 In a widely watched case in Florida this week, a jury ruled that a hospital acted 'reasonably' when it sent an undocumented immigrant who … Continue reading

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Court Says English-Only Tests OK In Schools

Court says English-only tests OK in schools By Bob Egelko The San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/BAIJ191KB0.DTL San Francisco — California is entitled to administer school achievement tests and high school exit exams in English to all students, including … Continue reading

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Exploitation Of Workers At Top Hotels

Exploitation of workers at top hotels By Andrew Bomford BBC reporter July 31, 2009 A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of exploitation of migrant workers at some of London's leading hotels. Examination of the time sheets and pay slips of … Continue reading

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Petro-Can To Lay Off Execs Amid Q2 Slump

Petro-Can to lay off execs amid Q2 slump 4:19PM Scott Johnston INEWS 880 Edmonton 7/30/2009 More hints of massive lay offs as Petro-Canada and Suncor will become one company after its merger on Saturday. No specific projections were given today … Continue reading

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Canada Denies Nigerians Entry Visas

Canada denies Nigerians entry visas By Peter Nkanga NEXT July 30, 2009 01:55PMT The hours are counting down to the “Best in the World” a Microsoft Word and Excel world title championship holding in Toronto, Canada, beginning on July 30, … Continue reading

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