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  • July 2008

    • Journo 'Ecstatic' Over Demise of HIV Travel Ban

      newser  |  Daily Dish (The Atlantic)  |  Jul 17, 08 3:29 PM CDT

      Journo 'Ecstatic' Over Demise of HIV Travel Ban

      HIV-positive journalist Andrew Sullivan is “ecstatic” over yesterday's passage by the Senate of a bill that would lift a US ban on visitors and immigrants with the virus that causes AIDS, he writes in his Atlantic blog. "I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the happiest days of my whole life," writes the openly gay, British Sullivan, who plans to pursue citizenship. More »

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      Senate  • immigration  • gay rights  • citizenship  • Andrew Sullivan

    • Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 16, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

      The Senate moved today to repeal a ban on allowing immigrants and vistors who are HIV-positive to enter the country, the AP reports. The measure was part of a $50 billion bill to combat AIDS worldwide. The US is one of only a dozen countries—including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Libya—that forbids the entry of visitors with AIDS. More »

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      Senate  • immigration  • Africa  • John Kerry  • AIDS  • HIV  • Gordon Smith  • visas

    • UK Immigration Rules Would Exclude This Man

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Jul 16, 08 4:19 PM CDT

      UK Immigration Rules Would Exclude This Man

      Strict new immigration rules aimed at attracting highly skilled workers to Britain would keep tech icons Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell from getting top-tier visas, Bloomberg notes, because they don't have college degrees. "It's a dumbing-down,'' one opponent says. "If you're a 20-something American with a bachelor's degree and you earn [$52,000] a year, you're a high-skilled migrant. You can come in, but Bill Gates can't.'' More »

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      Great Britain  • Gordon Brown  • immigration  • college  • Steve Jobs  • Bill Gates  • immigration reform  • Michael Dell  • college graduates  • skilled labor

    • Cash-Strapped Businesses Battle Immigration Crackdown

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 6, 08 6:57 AM CDT

      Cash-Strapped Businesses Battle Immigration Crackdown

      As state and federal authorities crack down on illegal immigration, businesses are fighting back, the New York Times reports. Employers, stung by aggressive new measures that would revoke the licenses of those found to have hired illegals, say their very existence is threatened. A few states are responding to the fears, and revising or rejecting tougher immigration laws. More »

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      immigration  • immigration reform  • Michael Chertoff  • illegal immigration  • employers  • businesses

  • June 2008

    • Latino Voters: Four Myths

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jun 30, 08 3:07 PM CDT

      Latino Voters: Four Myths

      Pundits are way off on Hispanic voters, writes Arian Campo-Flores in Newsweek . Four common misconceptions: Immigration is everything. A recent survey showed that education, health care, the economy, and crime were more important in the demographic. Recent immigrants are most likely to care about immigration—and least likely to be voters. More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • immigration  • the Hispanic vote  • Spanish  • swing voters

    • As Celtic Tiger Slows, Ireland Again Empties

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 25, 08 12:01 PM CDT

      As Celtic Tiger Slows, Ireland Again Empties

      The massive Irish economic engine of the '90s brought decades of emigration to a screeching halt and hordes of EU immigrants flooding through open borders to lay claim to plentiful jobs. But as the Celtic Tiger begins to look like a kitty, the Wall Street Journal reports, many of those immigrants are packing their bags and heading home—where the boom times are on the rise. More »

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      United Kingdom  • European Union  • immigration  • Ireland  • Eastern Europe  • Celtic Tiger

    • World Pop. to Hit 7B by 2012

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 08 2:37 AM CDT

      World Pop. to Hit 7B by 2012

      The world's soaring population is expected to hit 7 billion by 2012, further straining thinly stretched natural resources, AP reports. The current population is 6.7 billion, and growing at 1.2% a year, spurred by increasing medical and nutritional advances in developing countries. But as more women in developing nations join the work force, the growth rate is expected to slow—eventually to .5% by 2050. More »

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      China  • India  • immigration  • overpopulation  • Census Bureau  • human population  • Brookings Institution

    • Prison of Cuban Baseball Ensnares US Agent, Too

      newser  |  Vanity Fair  |  Jun 13, 08 3:17 PM CDT

      Prison of Cuban Baseball Ensnares US Agent, Too

      Politics is keeping "at least half a billion dollars of baseball players in Cuba right now," one agent tells Michael Lewis as he investigates, for Vanity Fair , the case of an American sports agent now in jail for smuggling athletes. Gus Dominguez appears to be a victim of politics on the US side—though that web isn't half as tangled as the one facing athletes on Castro's island. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • immigration  • Cuba  • smuggling

    • FBI Swamped With Checking on Immigrants

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 10, 08 11:36 AM CDT

      FBI Swamped With Checking on Immigrants

      The FBI’s system of background checks has forced many legal immigrants to wait years before getting into the US or gaining citizenship, the Justice Department finds. The program, deluged by more names and wider checks after 9/11, has struggled with old technology, poor training, and swamped supervisors, the Los Angeles Times reports. And criminals could be cruising through the system. More »

    • Hands Bound, States Find Ways to Attack Immigration

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 9:13 AM CDT

      Hands Bound, States Find Ways to Attack Immigration

      You hear a lot less Spanish these days in Milton, Fla. Hispanic immigrants fled the panhandle town after local police raided more than a dozen businesses, arresting at least 27 illegals. Technically, only federal agents can enforce immigration law, but cops around the country have found ways around that problem, the New York Times reports. Milton’s illegals were rounded up for identity theft. More »

    • Under Violent Seige, Tijuana's Elite Flee

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 8, 08 3:03 PM CDT

      Under Violent Seige, Tijuana's Elite Flee

      As drug-fueled violence skyrockets in Tijuana, the upper-class is fleeing the city, with more than 1,000 wealthy families migrating to the US, reports the LA Times . The Mexican city is now second to Baghdad in kidnappings and many American real estate agents describe clients who arrive missing fingers or with fresh wounds. A government crackdown on drug cartels may have forced organized crime groups to seek out other means of income. More »

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      crime  • drugs  • immigration  • kidnapping  • wealth  • Tijuana  • border crossing

    • Paddington, at 50, Gets a Very 2008 Makeover

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jun 2, 08 4:08 PM CDT

      Paddington, at 50, Gets a Very 2008 Makeover

      Paddington Bear is celebrating his 50th birthday with a comeback, the Daily Telegraph reports, as the first new book in 30 years arrives soon. Though the marmalade-loving furball will be charming as ever, Paddington Here and Now might raise controversy: It’s about immigration. More »

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      children  • immigration  • Children's books

  • May 2008

    • Obama Woos Key Western Swing States

      newser  |  Politico  |  May 27, 08 12:15 PM CDT

      Obama Woos Key Western Swing States

      Barack Obama is touring the Mountain West, Politico reports, territory advisers believe could be crucial in the general election. At stake are Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada, states George Bush won by small margins in 2004—and in which the GOP has since lost popularity, especially on immigration and among Hispanics. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • immigration  • Nevada  • Colorado  • New Mexico  • Denver  • the Hispanic vote

    • Tutu Pleads for End to Immigrant Attacks

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 20, 08 5:03 AM CDT

      Tutu Pleads for End to Immigrant Attacks

      Archbishop Desmond Tutu pleaded yesterday with his South African countrymen to end a vicious surge of anti-immigrant violence that has killed at least 22 people, AP reports. Extra police were sent to squatter camps as roaming mobs continued to stab, beat and burn immigrant workers in some of the worst bloodshed the country has seen since apartheid. "The violence is extreme," said a spokesman for Doctors Without Borders. More »

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      immigration  • Africa  • South Africa  • riots  • Desmond Tutu  • Johannesburg

    • 12 Immigrants Killed in Johannesburg Riots

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 19, 08 4:20 AM CDT

      12 Immigrants Killed in Johannesburg Riots

      At least 12 foreigners were shot, stabbed, beaten or burned to death over the weekend in anti-immigrant protests in and around Johannesburg. Thousands of terrified immigrants, many of them Zimbabweans fleeing problems in their own country, are now seeking refuge in churches or police stations, reports the New York Times. Immigrants have become the scapegoat for problems in the nation, rocked by a 23% unemployment rate, soaring food prices and one of the highest crime levels in the world.  More »

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      immigration  • Africa  • riots  • Thabo Mbeki  • Jacob Zuma  • African National Congress  • Johannesburg

    • US Must End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 14, 08 6:06 PM CDT

      US Must End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

      The US is one of only 12 countries (including Sudan, Moldova and Libya) that flouts UN law by barring HIV-positive visitors or immigrants—and the restriction must end, writes Andrew Sullivan in the Washington Post . The HIV-positive Sullivan, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine, remains in the US only with the help of “great lawyers, a rare O visa…a government-granted HIV waiver” and endless legal fees—and he’s one of the lucky ones. More »

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      George W. Bush  • immigration  • discrimination  • HIV/AIDS  • Andrew Sullivan

    • Detained Immigrants Dying for Lack of Health Care

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 11, 08 8:49 AM CDT

      Detained Immigrants Dying for Lack of Health Care

      The number of detained immigrants has skyrocketed since 9/11, and many do not receive critical health care in overburdened federal detention centers, the Washington Post reports. Several immigrants, detained for minor offenses or waiting to seek asylum, received little or no care for life-threatening symptoms which finally killed them, a Post investigation found. More »

    • Thousands Rally for Immigrant Rights

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 1, 08 6:15 PM CDT

      Thousands Rally for Immigrant Rights

      Immigrants and activists took to the streets by the thousands across the US today to put immigration reform back on the election agenda, the AP reports. In Chicago, 15,000 called for an end to deportations and better access to education, and big rallies also took place  in DC, Miami, LA, and Tucson. This May Day turnout, however, didn't appear to rival the 1 million protesters who turned out nationwide in 2006. More »

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      election 2008  • immigration  • immigration reform  • illegal immigration  • protesters  • political protest

  • April 2008

    • 'Post-Fascist' Elected Mayor of Rome

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Apr 29, 08 7:07 AM CDT

      'Post-Fascist' Elected Mayor of Rome

      After decades of center-left rule, the city of Rome elected a rightwinger with a past in a neo-Fascist group as mayor yesterday. Gianni Alemanno, whose party calls itself "post-Fascist," won a runoff election for control of the Italian capital, handily beating the country's outgoing deputy prime minister. Alemanno has promised to expel 20,000 "gyspies and immigrants" from Rome, writes the Times of London. More »

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      immigration  • Italy  • Rome  • Silvio Berlusconi  • Fascism

    • Booming India Sees 'Brain Gain'

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 20, 08 5:04 PM CDT

      Booming India Sees 'Brain Gain'

      India's educated are no longer rushing to the West for big bucks and a better lifestyle, the Guardian reports. More university grads are refusing to emigrate and many expats are returning home—a trend experts are dubbing "brain gain." One Indian, formerly in London, said he would "read about what was happening in India and I'd ask myself: What am I doing here? It was an obvious choice to return." More »

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      India  • immigration  • brain drain  • emigration  • reverse brain drain

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