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Family Of Slaying Victim Denied Immigration

Family of slaying victim denied immigration By RENATO GANDIA Calgary Sun Last Updated: March 12, 2010 8:46am Arcelie Laoagans dream of a better life for her family in Canada may have been killed when she was murdered two years ago. … Continue reading

No Longer The Great White North

No longer the great white north By Leonard Stern The Ottawa Citizen March 12, 2010 Comments (13) This week Statistics Canada confirmed what every Canadian has long recognized: The country is becoming less white. Just writing that sentence seems risqu. … Continue reading

Canadian Immigration Makes Language Rules ‘Fairer’

Canadian Immigration makes language rules 'fairer' By Liam Clifford Global Visas, March 12, 2010 http://www.globalvisas.com/news/canadian_immigration_makes_language_rules__fairer_2171.html Jason Kenney, the Canadian immigration minister, has announced a new streamlined language assessment process for Canada visa applicants. The new rules will apply to people … Continue reading

Senators Give Obama A Bipartisan Plan On Immigration

Senators give Obama a bipartisan plan on immigration The president is encouraged, but healthcare politics could jeopardize the proposal. By Peter Nicholas The Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-immigration12-2010mar12,0,5784564.story A pair of influential senators presented President Obama with a … Continue reading

Don’t Raise Your Family In Britain, Say Expats

Don't raise your family in Britain, say expats: UK voted worst place in developed world to bring up children By Lucy Ballinger Daily Mail Last updated at 8:50 AM on 12th March 2010 Comments (395) Britain is the worst country … Continue reading

National Drive For Underground Refugees

National Drive for Underground Refugees SR International—Radio Sweden 12/03/2010 This weekend will see a country-wide drive to help Iraqi refugees write new applications for residence permits to prevent them from being deported. The campaign will concentrate on people who come … Continue reading

RCMP Investigates Immigration Website

RCMP investigates immigration website The CBC News (Canada), March 11, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/03/11/mtl-rcmp-quickvisacanada.html The RCMP has launched an investigation into a website guaranteeing immigrants easy access to Canada and advising them to use false pretexts in order to take advantage of … Continue reading

Other Provinces Leery About Witholding Public Services Due To Religious Garb

Other provinces leery about withholding public services due to religious garb By Jonathan Montpetit The Canadian Press, March 11, 2010 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/other-provinces-leery-about-withholding-public-services-due-to-religious-garb-87395347.html Montreal (CP) — In the struggle to integrate newcomers to Canada, Quebec has distanced itself from other provinces with … Continue reading

Muslim Child Brides On Rise

Muslim child brides on rise By TOM GODFREY Toronto Sun Last Updated: March 11, 2010 10:46pm Federal immigration officials say theres little they can do to stop child brides from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed … Continue reading

Voter Registration Forms Now Available Nationally In 5 Asian Languages

Voter registration forms now available nationally in 5 Asian languages The Associated Press, March 11, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-voter-registration-languages,0,4085376.story San Francisco (AP) — Voter registration forms are available nationally in five Asian languages for the first time. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission … Continue reading

Immigration Courts Filled With Immigration Cases, Not Judges

Immigration courts filled with cases, not judges By Stewart Powell and Katie Brandenburg The Houston Chronicle, March 11, 2010 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6909471.html Washington, DC — The nation's immigration courts are choked by the largest backlog of pending deportation and asylum cases in … Continue reading

Immigrants Leapfrog Natives Into Local Gov’t

Immigrants leapfrog natives into local government By John Tyler Radio Netherlands Worldwide Published on : 11 March 2010 – 9:49am Dozens of immigrant candidates pushed aside colleagues with greater seniority to get elected to Dutch local councils in last week's … Continue reading

The Hubbub Over Halal: Burgers For Muslims Raise Ire In France

The hubbub over halal: burgers for Muslims raise ire in France By : dpa Category : Europe (World) Posted : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:08:09 GMT Paris – Anyone who craves a real hamburger probably wouldn't switch willingly to turkey … Continue reading

Border Agents Banking On Catching Illegals

Border agents banking on catching illegals By TOM GODFREY, Toronto Sun Last Updated: March 10, 2010 5:49pm Canadian border agents are routinely using confidential banking and credit card information to arrest illegal immigrant account-holders for deportation, a Toronto lawyer says. … Continue reading

Haitian Montrealers Hope To Bring Family Members To Canada

Haitian Montrealers hope to bring family members to Canada ctvmontreal.ca Updated: Wed Mar. 10 2010 6:40:32 PM Jodler Vital is among a host of Haitian Montrealers who are trying to bring family members to Canada from Haiti following the massive … Continue reading

Immigrants Want Less Immigration

Immigrants want less immigration Martin Collacott National Post Posted: March 10, 2010, 9:30 AM by NP Editor It is widely believed that most immigrants support high immigration levels. Political parties in particular buy into this assumption, assuming that bringing in … Continue reading

Immigration And The SPLC : Stopping ‘Hate’ Is About Stopping Debate

Immigration & the SPLC Panel: Stopping 'Hate' Is Really about Stopping Debate Center For Immigration Studies Washington, D.C. Contact: Jerry Kammer, 202-466-8185, gjk@cis.org March 10, 2010 WASHINGTON After the collapse of the Senate amnesty bill in 2007, the Southern Poverty … Continue reading

Illegal Immigrant Worked At House Of Lords For Six Months After Using Fake Passport To Get Kitchen Job

Illegal immigrant worked at House of Lords for six months after using fake passport to get kitchen job By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:39 PM on 10th March 2010 An illegal immigrant worked for six months serving lunch … Continue reading

Thousands Of Marriages ‘Ilegal’

Thousands of marriages 'illegal' Jamie Smyth, Social Affairs Correspondent irishtimes.com Last Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 11:56 Thousands of foreign couples who married at their countrys embassies in the Republic over the past three years are being told their marriages … Continue reading

Iraqi Expats Flock To Polling Booths In Sweden

Iraqi expats flock to polling booths in Sweden Online: http://www.thelocal.se/25388/20100307/ Published: 7 Mar 10 09:14 CET At least 26,000 Iraqis living in Sweden cast their absentee ballots at the weekend, ahead of the Iraqi general elections on Sunday. Some 80,000 … Continue reading