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  • May 2008

    • Obama Woos Key Western Swing States

      Politico  |  May 27, 08 12:15 PM CDT

      Obama Woos Key Western Swing States

      (Newser) - 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  • Denver  • New Mexico  • the Hispanic vote

    • Tutu Pleads for End to Immigrant Attacks

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

      Tutu Pleads for End to Immigrant Attacks

      (Newser) - 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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      Africa  • immigration  • South Africa  • riots  • Desmond Tutu  • Johannesburg

    • 12 Immigrants Killed in Johannesburg Riots

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

      12 Immigrants Killed in Johannesburg Riots

      (Newser) - 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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      Africa  • immigration  • Thabo Mbeki  • riots  • Jacob Zuma  • African National Congress  • Johannesburg

    • US Must End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

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

      US Must End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

      (Newser) - 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

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

      Detained Immigrants Dying for Lack of Health Care

      (Newser) - 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

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

      Thousands Rally for Immigrant Rights

      (Newser) - 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

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

      'Post-Fascist' Elected Mayor of Rome

      (Newser) - 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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      Italy  • immigration  • Rome  • Silvio Berlusconi  • Fascism

    • Booming India Sees 'Brain Gain'

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

      Booming India Sees 'Brain Gain'

      (Newser) - 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

    • Bardot On Trial, Once Again, Over Racism

      Time  |  Apr 16, 08 2:09 PM CDT

      Bardot On Trial, Once Again, Over Racism

      (Newser) - Brigitte Bardot is on trial for racism—again. The 1960s French sex symbol, now 73, is a stridently anti-immigrant and seemingly anti-Muslim politician, Time reports. Bardot is on trial for “inciting racial hatred,” a charge she’s been convicted of four times. The current case involves a letter Bardot wrote to officials protesting slaughter of sheep for a Muslim festival. More »

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      France  • immigration  • Islam  • racism  • French politics

    • Game, Set, Match to China

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 11, 08 11:46 AM CDT

      Game, Set, Match to China

      (Newser) - Go to a table tennis match between, say, Poland and Finland, and you’ll see something confusing. “It’s just Chinese playing against each other,” says America’s national team coach. China is so mind-bogglingly dominant at table tennis that it exports players throughout the world and still wins nearly every major competition. The Wall Street Journal checks it out. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • immigration  • Ping Pong diplomacy  • table tennis

    • 54 Burmese Migrant Workers Suffocate in Border Crossing

      Reuters  |  Apr 10, 08 6:54 AM CDT

      54 Burmese Migrant Workers Suffocate in Border Crossing

      (Newser) - Police yesterday discovered the bodies of 54 Burmese migrant workers who suffocated in a truck heading across the border to Thailand. Workers crammed in the 7-by-20-foot space, almost all women, say when they finally managed to alert the driver, he fled. Each worker paid $314 to be smuggled into Thailand, according to some of the 67 travelers who survived the ordeal, reports CNN. More »

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      immigration  • Burma  • Myanmar  • Thailand  • illegal immigrant  • human trafficking  • migrant labor  • migrant workers

    • Lindsey Graham, McCain's 'Mini-Me'

      Politico  |  Apr 9, 08 1:42 PM CDT

      Lindsey Graham, McCain's 'Mini-Me'

      (Newser) - Sen. Lindsey Graham must be getting something special from his friendship with John McCain, Politico writes, because he's willing to be dubbed Mac’s “mini-me” in the press—and called “little jerk” by the candidate himself. Of course, it's worth it for the first-term South Carolina Republican, who gets a spot in the sun—and what one colleague calls “almost a father-son relat