Tech industry's approach to immigration has been too broad
Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:06 The tech industry hasn’t been able to separate the need for more high-skilled foreign workers with the broader fight over immigration reform, the head of Cisco acknowledged Wednesday, in what he seemed to frame as a tactical mistake in recent years.
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State Senate committee votes to subsidize health care for immigrants illegally
Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:24 A California Senate Health Committee voted 7-0 Wednesday to expand health care coverage for all Californians, regardless of their immigration status.
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With an Influx of Newcomers, Little Chinatowns Dot a Changing Brooklyn
Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:11 Just before 5 p.m., wave after wave of smiling toddlers came bounding down the stairs, their grandparents from China breathlessly in tow.
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Korea’s Immigration Policy Backlash
Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:10 Late last month, the South Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family presented an open discussion titled “Changes and Alternative Models in the Korean Multicultural Family Policy Paradigm.
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Africa: Immigration Camps Not the Solution to Stopping South Africa's Xenophobic Attacks
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:50 Detaining immigrants in camps is not the solution to stopping xenophobic attacks in South Africa, a leading South African diversity expert told RFI on Thursday. Gwede Mantashe, the secretary general of the ruling African National Congress, has suggested that putting immigrants in camps and tightening immigration laws is the answer to a wave of anti-immigrant violence.
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Bed Quota Fuels 'Inhumane' And 'Unnecessary' Immigrant Detention: Report
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:50 The private prison industry’s growing role in immigrant detention is due in part to Congress' requiring the federal government to maintain some 34,000 detention beds, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Clinton’s Fuzzy Position on Immigration Worries Activists
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:40 One of the key issues in the 2016 presidential campaign is certain to be how the candidates propose to deal with illegal immigration, from border security to the treatment of undocumented individuals already in the United States.
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Japan Skirts Immigration Debate by Offering ‘Internships’ to Foreigners
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:39 TOKYO—As its labor force shrinks, Japan is looking abroad to fill jobs like health-care aide, convenience-store manager and construction worker.
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Immigrant families in limbo and on edge ahead of hearing
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:39 SAN FRANCISCO — It is the one major hope for at least temporary relief from the threat of deportation that immigrants like William Ortiz face daily: President Obama's executive order providing temporary stay of deportation and a work permit.
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Immigration Reform: If Legalized, Tax Paid By Undocumented Workers Would Increase By $2.2B, Study Says
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:39 Tax payments by the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants in the United States would substantially increase, adding billions to their contributions in state and local taxes, if a comprehensive immigration reform allowed them to work in the country legally, according to a new 50-state study, conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
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H-1B visas: Immigration debate sparked by record number of applicants
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:38 Companies are seeking more foreign workers than ever before to fill highly skilled jobs in technology and other industries, but the United States will grant visas to just a fraction of them in a lottery that began this week.
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How Hispanic Groups Rate Rubio and Clinton on Immigration
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:38 Marco Rubio is now at the point in his post-announcement media blitz when he's answering questions about previous post-announcement interviews. During an appearance on Fox News' "The Kelly File" on Tuesday, host Megyn Kelly asked the Florida Republican about his comment to NPR's "Morning Edition" that he's "done more on on immigration than Hillary Clinton ever did." Kelly argued that might not endear him to the conservative voters who didn't like the 2013 comprehensive immigration bill.
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Greece Debates Solution to Refugee Crisis
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:24 Greece has reached a critical point with regards to the strong wave of refugees and illegal immigrants. The local government has also demanded that Europe should provide the necessary assistance so that the problem can be solved.
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Remittances growth to slow sharply in 2015, says World Bank
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:22 Growth in global remittances, including those to developing countries, will slow sharply this year due to weak economic growth in Europe, deterioration of the Russian economy and the depreciation of the euro and ruble, according to the World Bank.
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EU exit would make 2m Britons abroad illegal immigrants overnight
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:20 Two million UK citizens working abroad could become illegal immigrants overnight if Britain were to leave the European Union, former attorney general Dominic Grieve has warned.
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Europe should see Turkey is no longer a country of emigration
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:19 “I don’t say it impolitely, but I say it directly: I don’t want to see you here again,” said Muriel Domenach, the French Consul General in Istanbul, talking about her conversations with visa-seeking Turks. Listening to her, one gets the feeling that she would like to say this to as many people as possible.
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Britain Would 'Fall Apart' Without Immigration, Says Former Conservative Minister
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:19 Britain would "fall apart" without immigration, a former senior Conservative minister has argued.
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Federal ruling may free many immigrants without posting bond
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:19 In a move that could affect tens of thousands of detainees, a federal judge in Seattle has ordered the Department of Justice to obey a law that allows for the release of some undocumented immigrants without posting a bond.
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Pole Challenges Anti-Immigration UK Politician to a Duel
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:18 An affluent Pole has challenged an anti-immigration British politician to a duel.
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Influx of Migrants Across Mediterranean Nears Record Levels
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 11:17 ROME — With spring barely arrived, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean is already approaching last year’s record levels after a startling weekend in which more than 5,600 people were rescued from a small armada of smugglers’ wooden and rubber boats, even as nine others died after their vessel capsized.
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- Banque du Maroc is negotiating with its French and Spanish counterparts over Moroccan remittances
- Meloni relance l’offensive contre l’immigration lors du sommet européen
- China Grants Moroccan Scientist Rachid Yazami Lithium Batteries Patent
- Migrants Day: Secretary-General Guterres calls for safe and more humane migration
- Ayman Ramdani, the founder of NGO Play4Peace, decorated by the Belgian King (Play4Peace press release)