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Tax Increase Fears Over Immigration

Tax increase fears over immigration Press Association The Guardian Tuesday August 8, 2006 6:08 AM People could face council tax rises of 6% on top of inflation-related increases in parts of the country over the next five years to pay … Continue reading

Asylum Seeker Laws Still In Limbo

Asylum seeker laws still in limbo The Age August 8, 2006 – 10:49AM Prime Minister John Howard has pleaded with backbenchers to maintain party unity as government MPs threaten to cross the floor over new hardline boat people asylum seeker … Continue reading

Quebec Universities Open Doors To Students Stranded By Middle East Conflict

Quebec universities open doors to students stranded by Middle East conflict August 7, 2006 – 15:40 The Canadian Press By: DENE MOORE MONTREAL (CP) – With the largest population of Lebanese-Canadians on their doorstep, Concordia University in Montreal and the … Continue reading

Time To Ease Up On Population Growth

Time to ease up on population growth Aug. 7, 2006. 01:00 AM Letter To The Editor The Toronto Star Why are Torontonians surprised that traffic gridlock appears to be getting worse every year and that infrastructure like hospitals and schools … Continue reading

Illegal Immigration: A Mexican Failure

Illegal immigration: A Mexican failure News W&M News Notes Grayson on immigration Author: Staff, Source: W&M Notes Date: Aug 07, 2006 Related content Migrants and the humanities: Students serve farm workers on the Eastern Shore (George Grayson, Class of 1938 … Continue reading

Reid To Set Limit On Immigration

Reid to set limit on immigration By Brendan Carlin, Political Correspondent The Telegraph (Filed: 07/08/2006) John Reid reacted to mounting public anxiety over immigration yesterday by effectively calling for official limits on the numbers coming into Britain. John Reid denies … Continue reading

Italy Attempts To Tackle Immigration

August 07, 2006 05:41 PM ET Italy attempts to tackle immigration Financial Times News On the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, scarcely a week passes without the arrival of boatloads of illegal immigrants braving desperate conditions to cross the Mediterranean … Continue reading

( New Zealand Prime Minister) Clark Defends Lack of Further Investigation Into (Former Immigration Minister) Field

Clark defends lack of further investigation into Field New Zealand Herald 1.00pm Monday August 7, 2006 Prime Minister Helen Clark today rejected calls for an investigation into other successful visa applications involving embattled Labour MP Taito Philip Field. National has … Continue reading

U.S. Population Growth And Its Effects On Our Environment Must Be Addressed

America: taking it to the limit? U.S. population growth and its effects on our environment must be addressed, experts say By Mike Lee The San Diego Union Tribune, August 6, 2006 http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060806/news_1n6pop.html Look at the top-priority campaigns of the nation's … Continue reading

Reid Calls For Immigration Debate

Reid calls for migration debate BBC News August 6, 2006 John Reid praised the contribution of Polish migrants to the UK Home Secretary John Reid has called for a mature debate on the immigration challenges facing Britain. Mr Reid said: … Continue reading

Old/New California Poll on Illegal Immigration

NEW POLL RESULTS Latest responses to a Kinky Friedman telephone poll on whether or not people in California think illegal immigration is a serious problem: 41%: Yes, it is a serious problem. 59%: “No hablo ingles.”

Schwarzenegger: Immigration, California Public Schools And…Re-Election?

August 04, 2006 View From Lodi, CA: Schwarzenegger: Immigration, California Public Schools andRe-Election? By Joe Guzzardi Pity poor California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hes in for a long grind between now and November 7th unless he stops his double speak about … Continue reading

ID Card Plan Secretive, Expensive and Inconsistent, Government Told

ID card plan secretive, expensive and inconsistent, government told Oliver King and agencies Friday August 4, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair's determination to press ahead with plans to introduce identity cards received a double blow today when two reports accused … Continue reading

EU Launches Marine Border Squad

Last Updated: Friday, 4 August 2006, 10:50 GMT 11:50 UK EU launches marine border squad BBC News Many immigrants die trying to reach Europe by sea every year An EU rapid reaction team of border guards set up to deal … Continue reading

Germany To Ease Threshold For High Skills Immigrants

Germany to ease threshold for high-skills immigrants Expatica News 4 August 2006 BERLIN – Berlin is to make entry easier for high-salary foreigners offered jobs in Germany, a government spokeswoman said in Berlin Friday, after the existing high-skills plan flopped. … Continue reading

Australia Accused of Returning To Convict Ship Era

Australia accused of returning to convict ship era The Telegraph, U.K. By Nick Squires in Cairns (Filed: 04/08/2006) Australia plans to use an armed prison ship to hold illegal fishermen and “boat people” in a move that critics say smacks … Continue reading

McDonald’s Imports Staff

McDonald's imports staff The Age (Melbourne) Meaghan Shaw August 4, 2006 McDONALD'S has imported temporary workers from overseas to fill vacancies in its remote Western Australian stores due to a labour shortage caused by the resources boom. The fast-food chain … Continue reading

In Mortal Danger (Front Page Magazine Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo)

In Mortal Danger By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | August 3, 2006 Frontpage Interview's gust today is Congressman Tom Tancredo, who represents Colorado's 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his election to Congress in 1998, Tancredo worked … Continue reading

Mexico Should Enact Immigration Reform

Mexico should enact immigration reform August 3, 2006 Dallas Morning News MEXI-CO President Vicente Fox has spent much of his international political capital fighting the U.S. House bill passed last December that proposes felon status for illegal immigrants in the … Continue reading

The Multi-Identity Society: England and Immigration

The Multi-Identity Society England and Immigration by Hazhir Teimourian Harvard International Review (A Muslim woman wearing a burqah walks down a London street in 2005. Increasing immigration to the United Kingdom from Islamic countries has created severe political conflict in … Continue reading