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  • February 2008

    • US Latino Population to Triple by 2050

      USA Today  |  Feb 11, 08 6:20 PM CST

      US Latino Population to Triple by 2050

      (Newser) - America's Latino population will triple and whites will become a minority by mid-century, a new study says. The US population will also soar from 303 million to 438 million, mostly due to immigration. Whites, now two-thirds of Americans, are projected to sink to 47%, down from 85% in 1960. More »

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      immigration  • Hispanic  • population  • blacks  • Latinos  • Pew Research Center  • Asians

    • Potential Bellwether Va. Shades From Red to Blue

      Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 11, 08 3:44 PM CST

      Potential Bellwether Va. Shades From Red to Blue

      (Newser) - Virginia will have its critical primary moment tomorrow, but the state may play an even bigger role in November—that of a red state turning blue, reports the Wall Street Journal. The former Confederate seat has voted Republican in every election but one since 1952, but lately has elected two consecutive Democratic governors, a Democratic senator, and a Democratic state senate. More »

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      immigration  • Democratic nomination  • Virginia  • Potomac Primary  • red state  • blue states  • the suburban vote  • suburban sprawl

    • McCain Makes His Case to Conservatives

      Washington Post  |  Feb 7, 08 3:25 PM CST

      McCain Makes His Case to Conservatives

      (Newser) - John McCain sought to mend fractured ties with conservatives today, telling members of the Conservative Political Action Conference that he can't win without them, the Washington Post reports. McCain defended his own conservative credentials, calling himself a "foot soldier of the Reagan revolution." Speaking hours after Mitt Romney used the same forum to suspend his campaign, McCain said the GOP must unite behind him to defeat the Democratic nominee. More »

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      John McCain  • immigration  • conservative  • national security

    • McCain More Popular on the Road Than at Home

      Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 4, 08 3:34 PM CST

      McCain More Popular on the Road Than at Home

      (Newser) - GOP frontrunner John McCain is limping in his home state thanks to his stance on immigration. One in 10 Arizonans is an illegal immigrant, and the senator's support for legislation opponents call amnesty dogs him: A recent straw poll in a bellwether county voted him the least acceptable GOP candidate, though he's still expected to carry Arizona, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      John McCain  • immigration  • Arizona

    • Citizenship Test Just Too Tough for Most Brits

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Feb 1, 08 7:40 PM CST

      Citizenship Test Just Too Tough for Most Brits

      (Newser) - Should would-be immigrants to the United Kingdom be required to know the population of Wales when a majority of Britons don't? Only one in seven natives would pass the test required to get a passport, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The government says the bar should be set high even as critics say it's prohibitively so. More »

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      Great Britain  • immigration  • citizenship  • tests

  • January 2008

    • Immigrants Facing Epic Citizenship Delays

      Boston Globe  |  Jan 25, 08 5:40 PM CST

      Immigrants Facing Epic Citizenship Delays

      (Newser) - Over one million immigrants will have to wait up to 18 months before become US citizens due to a massive bureaucratic backlog nationwide. Applications surged last summer ahead of a fee increase of nearly 75%, the Boston Globe reports, helping create the paper jam. Before the increase, the average immigrant waited six months to be processed. More »

    • US 'Passport Cards' Coming This Spring

      USA Today  |  Jan 25, 08 9:18 AM CST

      US 'Passport Cards' Coming This Spring

      (Newser) - American citizens traveling by land or sea between the US and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, or Bermuda will have the option of using a wallet-sized card in place of a passport beginning this spring, reports USA Today . The handy-sized card is designed to make life a bit easier for border-area residents who make frequent crossings. More »

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      immigration  • passport  • border security

    • Duncan Drops Out of GOP Race

      CNN  |  Jan 19, 08 9:03 PM CST

      Duncan Drops Out of GOP Race

      (Newser) - California Rep. Duncan Hunter pulled out of the GOP presidential race today after winning only 2% of votes in the Nevada caucuses, CNN reports. The San Diego-area lawmaker said that failing to "gain traction in conservative states of Nevada and South Carolina" proved it was time to quit. A long-shot hopeful, he raised little money and almost no attention outside of GOP debates, the Washington Post reports. More »

    • Latinos the Wild Card in Nevada

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Jan 17, 08 7:15 AM CST

      Latinos the Wild Card in Nevada

      (Newser) - Hispanic voters could be key next November because they form a significant  minority of eligible voters in states President Bush won by less than 5% four years ago—Florida, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. Saturday's Nevada caucus is expected to offer important insight into how Hispanics will vote in November, reports the Christian Science Monitor . More »

    • President Dobbs? Group Begins Its Push

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jan 16, 08 10:48 PM CST

      President Dobbs? Group Begins Its Push

      (Newser) - With the Republican race in disarray—and many of the party's candidates too soft on immigration for its liking—a conservative group today began a campaign to draft Lou Dobbs as an independent candidate. The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC launched a website seeking support for the CNN host, a vocal advocate of cracking down on illegals, the Los Angeles Times reports . More »

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      immigration  • CNN  • Lou Dobbs

    • Merkel Trades Compromise For Hard Line

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 8, 08 4:04 PM CST

      Merkel Trades Compromise For Hard Line

      (Newser) - Ahead of a regional election later this month, Angela Merkel has left behind the conciliatory tone of her first 2 years and come out swinging. The German chancellor gave her strongest backing to the minister-president of Hesse, who is running for reelection on a harsh anti-immigrant platform. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Merkel supported her colleague's proposal to introduce boot camps for "criminal young foreigners." More »

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      Germany  • immigration  • election  • Angela Merkel  • Hesse  • anti immigrant platform

  • December 2007

    • Indians Pray to the 'Visa God'

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 31, 07 4:40 PM CST

      Indians Pray to the 'Visa God'

      (Newser) - Every week, 100,000 worshipers converge on a temple in Hyderabad, India, that honors a local incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. But the faithful aren’t praying for good health or fortune: They seek visas to the US and other Western countries, and the deity they’re praying to is known as the Visa God, the Wall Street Journal reports.  More »

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      Microsoft  • India  • immigration  • General Electric  • visa  • Hindu  • Dell Inc  • H-1B visa  • Vishnu  • Hyderabad

    • Citing US Troubles, Illegal Immigrants 'Self-Deport'

      Reuters  |  Dec 25, 07 10:04 PM CST

      Citing US Troubles, Illegal Immigrants 'Self-Deport'

      (Newser) - More illegal immigrants in the US are "self-deporting" back to their home countries in the face of stricter immigration enforcement and a worsening economy, Reuters reports. "The situation has got so tough that there don't seem to be many options left for us," said a Mexican immigrant. No exact numbers are known, but Reuters cites a spike in immigrants requesting Mexican citizenship for their US-born children and anecdotal reports from elsewhere. More »

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      US economy  • immigration  • illegal immigrant  • Mexican border  • deportation  • relocation

    • Fla. Woman Gets Opposite of Cold Feet

      Miami Herald  |  Dec 17, 07 12:01 PM CST

      Fla. Woman Gets Opposite of Cold Feet

      (Newser) - A south Florida woman who married at least 10 men between 2002 and 2006 has been charged with bigamy, the Miami Herald reports. Eunice Lopez, a Cuban immigrant and legal US resident, likely tied the knot(s) for money, officials say—none of her "husbands" had legal status. She's also suspected of pressing the men for cash after the ceremonies were over. More »

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      immigration  • wedding  • illegal immigration  • scam  • bigamy

    • Immigration Fervor Could Burn GOP

      New Yorker  |  Dec 13, 07 1:19 PM CST

      Immigration Fervor Could Burn GOP

      (Newser) - The GOP contenders embracing anti-immigrant fervor may be sorely miscalculating, Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker, in a piece looking at the party's dramatic turn from the Bush strategy of cultivating immigrants in 2000 and 2004. The nativist passions Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have been fanning appeal to a vocal niche, he notes, but they’ve erased Republican gains among Hispanics and might be damaging the party.  More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • Rudy Giuliani  • Mike Huckabee  • Mexico  • immigration  • Hispanic  • Mexican border  • border security  • Tom Tancredo

    • Huckabee Flip-Flops on Cuba Embargo

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 11, 07 9:49 AM CST

      Huckabee Flip-Flops on Cuba Embargo

      (Newser) - Mike Huckabee vowed yesterday that he'll strengthen the embargo against Cuba—an about-face from a 2002 letter he wrote President Bush seeking to lift the ban for economic reasons, reports the Los Angeles Times. The change, presented in Miami to a Cuban audience, is just part of the candidate's recent toughened stance on immigration. More »

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      Mike Huckabee  • Florida  • immigration  • Fred Thompson  • Cuba  • Fidel Castro  • Miami  • Cuban embargo  • Cuban exiles

    • Republicans Tone It Down for Hispanics

      Boston Globe  |  Dec 10, 07 5:47 AM CST

      Republicans Tone It Down for Hispanics

      (Newser) - GOP presidential hopefuls walked a delicate line at yesterday's bilingual debate in Miami, toning down their tough immigration rhetoric enough to court a Hispanic audience but not so much as to alienate their primary base. Weathering pointed questions, most candidates focused on praising legal immigrants, Hispanic family values and the US military, the Boston Globe reports. More »

    • Mitt Cans Landscapers in Dustup Over Illegals

      Boston Globe  |  Dec 5, 07 3:11 AM CST

      Mitt Cans Landscapers in Dustup Over Illegals

      (Newser) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney has repeatedly lashed out at rival Rudy Giuliani for making New York a sanctuary for illegal aliens. But another sanctuary appears to be Romney's own Massachusetts estate, where illegal immigrants have been working as landscapers for at least a year, reports the Boston Globe . Romney finally fired the firm yesterday after another story in the Globe . More »

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      Mitt Romney  • Rudy Giuliani  • immigration  • Belmont

    • US Citizenship Denied, Illegal Brazilians Head Home

      New York Times  |  Dec 4, 07 7:58 PM CST

      US Citizenship Denied, Illegal Brazilians Head Home

      (Newser) - Anti-immigrant crackdowns have partly succeeded, the New York Times reports, citing a wave of returning middle-class Brazilian illegals. Faced with no way to renew driver's licenses and no hope of legalization, many are going home, where economic conditions aren’t half bad. “Why should you stay if you have a place like Brazil, where there’s hope?” asked one Brazilian businessman. More »

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      immigration  • Brazil  • US dollar  • illegal immigrant

  • November 2007

    • In Japan, Robots Tackle the Dirty Work

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 30, 07 12:13 PM CST

      In Japan, Robots Tackle the Dirty Work

      (Newser) - With the birthrate sinking and the government showing no inclination to loosen immigration restrictions, Japanese businesses are turning to science for help with the impending worker shortage. The London Times visits a Tokyo exhibition that showcases the possible answer: robots. "Robots do the D-work"--dirty, dangerous, and difficult--"that Japanese shy away from," one proponent says. More »

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      Japan  • immigration  • robot  • robotics  • birth rate

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