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Homeland Security Changes Asylum Rules

Homeland Security Changes Asylum Rules By SUZANNE GAMBOA The Associated Press Sunday, December 2, 2007; 5:02 PM WASHINGTON — More people seeking asylum in the U.S. could be detained and then jailed longer under a new Homeland Security Department policy … Continue reading

600,000 Illegal Immigrants To Be Barred FRom GP Care

600,000 illegal immigrants to be barred from GP care By JAMES SLACK Daily Mail Last updated at 20:46pm on 2nd December 2007 Illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers could be barred from receiving free GP care. The ban is part … Continue reading

Spy Drone To Patrol Coast In Hunt For People Smugglers

Spy drone to patrol coast in hunt for people smugglers Christine Finn and Abul Taher From The Sunday Times December 2, 2007 POLICE and border control authorities are to use an unmanned aircraft to patrol the south coast to catch … Continue reading

Immigrant Population Surges During President Bush Administration–Expect 15 M more By 2017

Immigrant Population Surges During Pres. Bush Admin — Expect 15M More by 2017 Think&Ask.com 1 December 2007: While President George W Bush and Congress battle for the last word on tax cuts and stake a claim on success in Iraq … Continue reading

Britons Want A Strict Limit On Migrants

BRITONS WANT A STRICT LIMIT ON MIGRANTS By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Correspondent Daily Express Saturday December 1,2007 VOTERS yesterday delivered a damning verdict on Labour's shambolic immigration policy and demanded an annual cap on migrants. About three quarters of … Continue reading

Pacific Solution To Be Abolished

Pacific Solution to be abolished Jewel Topsfield The Age December 1, 2007 THE so-called Pacific Solution, arguably the most controversial immigration law since the White Australia policy, is to be abolished. Under the policy, which was introduced following the Tampa … Continue reading

Nicolas Sarkozy Condemns Rioters ‘Yobocracy’

Nicolas Sarkozay condemns rioters 'yobocracy' AFP 30 November 2007 PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Thursday to track down the “yobs and traffickers” he accused of fomenting unrest in the high-immigration suburbs of Paris. In a prime-time television interview, … Continue reading

Deportee Forced To Pay Maternity Debt Before Exit

Deportee forced to pay maternity debt before exit By Simon O'Rourke The New Zealand Herald 5:00AM Friday November 30, 2007 Jing Wu paid her bill after family and friends in China sent money. A judge refused to allow a Chinese … Continue reading

McClelland May Expand Haneef Case Probe

McClelland may expand Haneef case probe Sydney Morning Herald November 30, 2007 The investigation into the deportation of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef may be expanded, incoming attorney-general Robert McClelland says. Dr Haneef was arrested in July for recklessly supporting a … Continue reading

Mine Firms Keen To Know Labor Gov’t’s Stance On Migrant Work Visas

Mine firms keen to know Labor govt's stance on migrant work visas ABC News Posted November 30, 2007 11:45:00 Mining businesses near north Queensland's Bowen Basin are eagerly awaiting the new federal government's stance on migrant work arrangements. Rapid growth … Continue reading

Alleged Human Smugglers Arrested By The RCMP In Two Separate Cases

Alleged Human Smugglers Arrested by the RCMP in Two Separate Cases Canadian News Centre news.gc.ca MONTRAL, Thursday, November 29, 2007 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and its partners arrested alleged human smugglers operating in two separate organizations with no apparent … Continue reading

11 Indicted On Human Smuggling Charges

11 indicted on human smuggling charges By Megan Woolhouse Boston Globe Staff November 29, 2007 Law enforcement officials in Vermont yesterday revealed 11 people had been indicted or arrested for their alleged involvement in two human smuggling rings that illegally … Continue reading

Federal Court Strikes Down Third-Country Refugee Agreement

Federal court strikes down third-country refugee agreement Judge argues that U.S. don't meet refugee protection requirements Elizabeth Thompson, CanWest News Service Thursday, November 29, 2007 OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Canada has struck down an agreement that barred thousands … Continue reading

Foreign Workers Exploited, Says Alberta Federation Of Labour

Foreign workers exploited says Alberta Federation of Labour Keith Gerein, edmontonjournal.com November 29, 2007 EDMONTON – The increasing use of foreign workers to address the province's labour demands has been accompanied by increased exploitation that has now reached an “overwhelming” … Continue reading

Legal, Illegal Immigrant Numbers At Record Highs (CIS)

Legal, Illegal Immigrant Numbers at Record Highs New Report Looks at Poverty, Welfare, Health Insurance WASHINGTON (November 29, 2007) A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies examines the size, growth, and characteristics of the nation's immigrant, or foreign-born, … Continue reading

Immigration Checks ‘Are Working’

Immigration checks 'are working' Drivers found carrying stowaways face hefty fines BBC News Thursday, 29 November 2007, 18:42 GMT [] British Immigration officials based in France are stopping people entering Kent illegally, according to the border control agency. The comments … Continue reading

Trial Opens In France Of Alleged People Smugglers

Trial opens in France of alleged people smugglers Expatica News 29 November 2007 PARIS – French prosecutors requested Wednesday jail sentences ranging from one to eight years against 25 suspected members of a vast immigration smuggling ring, in a Paris … Continue reading

60 Police Injured As Riots Rock Paris

60 police injured as riots rock Paris By Henry Samuel in Paris and Richard Holt Last Updated: 2:39am GMT 29/11/2007 President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is facing his first serious test of his law and order credentials after a second … Continue reading

Hospital Staff Develop Cultural Understanding

Hospital staff develop cultural understanding Issued by Charlotte Farrar charlotte.farrar@midyorks.nhs.uk 28 November 2007 Nurses and other staff at Dewsbury and District Hospital are taking part in a training course to develop their cultural understanding as part of The Mid Yorkshire … Continue reading

Relative Calm In Riot-Hit French Suburb

Relative Calm in Riot-Hit French Suburb By Kerstin Gehmlich Reuters Wednesday, November 28, 2007; 6:21 PM VILLIERS LE BEL, France – Hundreds of French riot police deployed on Wednesday night in the tense Paris suburb where the death of two … Continue reading