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Computerworld - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for "eliminating the cap on H-1B visas" because restrictive U.S. visa policies -- particularly limitations on employment-based green cards -- are a form of "national suicide." In a speech late ...

Highlight Technologies will support the USCIS Refugee, Asylum, and International Operations (RAIO) Directorate to develop and maintain a virtual library, other electronic information tools, a hard copy library, and provide research support. This ...

Steven Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies (where I reign as the Great Helmsman), has penned a response to Chuck DeVores piece on the homepage today claiming to debunk our finding that 81 percent of the increase in jobs ...

Home News BlackAmericaWeb Commentary [ - ] Text [ + ] | | By: Gerry Hudson, International Executive Vice President Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Alabamas new immigration law will allow authorities to stop anyone of color and ...

ATLANTA -- The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to stop Alabama officials from enforcing a strict immigration law that has already driven Hispanic students from public schools and migrant workers from towns, warning that it opens the door ...

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Sweet potato farmer Casey Smith, right, usually hires about 25 laborers to help bring in the crop in Cullman, Ala. Only five showed up one day last month. (Dave Martin, AP file photo) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Terrified by Alabama's strict new immigration ...

0 Comments | Post a Comment BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Terrified by Alabama's strict new immigration crackdown, parents living in the state illegally say they are doing something that was unthinkable just days ago asking friends, relatives, co-workers ...

David Cameron is to launch a major crackdown on abuse of the immigration system , including plans for tougher visa rules to weed out sham marriages. In a keynote speech, the Prime Minister will call for relatives joining their families in the UK to be ...

FOLEY, Ala. ? Trailer by trailer, yard sale by yard sale, and pew by empty pew, a poor but tight-knit immigrant community on Alabama's breezy Gulf Coast is rapidly disintegrating. This time it is not a tornado or hurricane uprooting families and ...

FIONA GARTLAND CITIZENSHIP: PRESIDENTIAL candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon has said she has a document which shows she did not become an American citizen until October 1999. Her sister Susan Stein told an Iowa court in 2008 that, at a meeting with Dana?s ...

A panel of business leaders, immigration law experts, and city mayors said that the United States needs to realize that immigration is a vital component in spurring American economic growth and increasing its global competitiveness. 05 October 2011 US ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ? Alabama's strict new immigration law may be backfiring. Intended to force illegal workers out of jobs, it is also driving away many construction workers, roofers and field hands here legally who do backbreaking jobs that Americans ...

AA | Email | Print Tweet The Canadian Press SURREY, B.C. An American man who told Canadian border officers he was moving to Alaska with his children has been arrested at the Surrey, B.C., border crossing. Canada Border Services officers ...

The Obama administration's challenge to a strict Alabama immigration law escalated when the U.S. Department of Justice requested a federal appeals court to block the law from going into effect. The Justice Department's bid for an injunction on a law it ...

The Minister of Justice, Alan Shatter, has said Fine Gael's Presidential candidate Gay Mitchell has the "fullest support" of himself, Cabinet colleagues and the Fine Gael party. Speaking on This Week, Minister Shatter said Mr Mitchell "has the full ...

Illegal immigrants can now apply for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday that he has signed the second half of a legislative package focused on such students. AB131 by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, ...

SURREY, B.C. - An American man who told Canadian border officers he was moving to Alaska with his children has been arrested at the Surrey, B.C., border crossing. Canada Border Services officers questioned the man when he arrived at the border with his ...

SPENCER, Iowa Rick Perry used his two-day Iowa swing that ended Saturday to address head-on his perceived weakness on immigration, a tactic that GOP operatives said is a smart campaign strategy and one that is even necessary to save his campaign. ...

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