Minorities and Immigration News
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THE British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Bob Dewar has denied the story published in The Guardian last week that Britain has banned non-EU Immigrants from taking up skilled jobs. Dewar said it is not true that the UK has decided to limit certain skilled
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Katy Perry wants to be a British citizen. The US singer, who is engaged to English comic Russell Brand, is planning to apply for dual citizenship as soon as she ties the knot because she feels so close to her fiance’s home nation. She said,
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Filed under: Weekly Round Up (Our weekly recap of the best from Asylum) Silly-Season Report Card -- just how weird was this summer's non-news? Silly season is Asylum's favourite time of year. After enduring months of ridicule for our love of
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Three suspected sex traffickers arrested as police free 15 women in major crackdown on Belfast brothelsFifteen women have been rescued from sex traffickers in a major crackdown on brothels in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.The women, who are from EU countries, were being forced to work as [...]
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Three sex trafficking suspects arrested after PSNI rescues 15 women from EU countries in crackdown on 'modern-day slavery'Fifteen women have been rescued from sex traffickers in a crackdown in brothels in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.The women, who are from EU countries, were being force[...]
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Three suspected illegal immigrants have been stopped from entering the UK after being found in a chemical lorry bound for Tyneside. Specially trained dogs discovered the three Eritrean nationals during a routine inspection on 27 August. They were taken
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A shootout between soldiers and purported drug cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects in northern Tamaulipas state, near Mexico's border with Texas, the military said. Troops were patrolling yesterday in the town of General Trevino around noon when they came
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The departure of significant numbers of migrant workers would leave Britain with a deep skills gap, according to a member of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). A spokesman for the organisation claimed the arrival of immigrants is often an indicator of a
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With the opening of the Taj Cape Town, will the city prove the broken windows theory of urban decay?The broken windows theory of urban decay first appeared in the magazine The Atlantic in 1982. Social scientists James Q Wilson and George L Kelling proposed that little problems, such as broken window[...]
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NGO Passop on Thursday said government’s plans to deport Zimbabwean nationals who do not have valid documents may be used for electioneering by local councillors in communities battling xenophobia. The special dispensation that allowed Zimbabwean
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Washington, D.C. — Immigrants to the United States are assimilating at high rates, most notably by becoming citizens and homeowners in the first 18 years of residency, according to a study released today by the Center for American Progress. The study
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SAN JUAN, Texas When Ruth Garcia's twins are born in two months, they'll have all the rights of U.S. citizens. They and their six brothers and sisters will be able to vote, apply for federal student loans and even run for president. Garcia is an illegal
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(CNN) -- The gunman who held three people hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters was once convicted of smuggling an illegal immigrant into the country from Mexico. In 2003, James Lee, pleaded guilty to smuggling a woman from Tijuana, according to
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The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued an Arizona sheriff for refusing to cooperate with its investigation into allegations the sheriff discriminates against Hispanics in his program to crack down on illegal immigrants. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
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MONTERREY, Mexico -- Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war. A military aircraft
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The British government’s drive to lower net migration by reducing the availability of Tier 2 visa certificates is already having an impact on a wide range of UK based shipping companies and maritime services providers, according to specialist shipping
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A respiratory therapist accused four years ago of fondling two female patients in Woodbury was arrested Wednesday at the U.S.-Canadian border. After lengthy negotiations, Abdi Elmy Hersy, 49, was picked up by the Washington County sheriff's office
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Poverty has a much bigger impact on the educational performance of white British pupils than on any other ethnic group, according to studies. Poor white British pupils are falling far behind their richer classmates from the same background at primary
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SDLP East Antrim representative Justin McCamphill has strongly attacked the BNP's latest campaign against immigrants in Larne. They have attacked plans by the UK Border Agency to construct a 22-bed holding centre in the grounds of Larne PSNI station. Mr
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MONTERREY, Mexico At least 25 drug suspects were killed Thursday in a gunfight with the Mexican army near the U.S. border, military sources said. A spokesman said soldiers were patrolling around noon Thursday in the town of General Trevino when they
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A survivor of a massacre in Mexico that left 72 dead advised other would-be migrants to stay at home to avoid a fate like the one he and his companions met. The victims in the killings, which happened in northern Mexico, were migrants from Central and
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The Justice Department says Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio failed to turn over documents it its investigation into whether his department discriminated against Latinos while pursuing illegal immigrants. Sheriff Joe Arpaio confronts protesters and