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  • November 2007

    • Immigrant Kids Talk the Talk: 90% Master English

      Los Angeles Times  |  Nov 30, 07 5:40 AM CST

      Immigrant Kids Talk the Talk: 90% Master English

      (Newser) - Although many Spanish-speaking immigrants who moved to America know little English, that's not true of their children and grandchildren, according to a new Pew survey. Only 23% of first-generation immigrants said they were competent in English, but 88% of second-generation and 94% of third-generation residents said they can carry on a conversation in English very well. More »

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      immigration  • immigrant  • language  • English  • Latinos  • Spanish  • bilingual education

    • Immigration Hits All-Time High

      New York Times  |  Nov 29, 07 12:18 PM CST

      Immigration Hits All-Time High

      (Newser) - One out of every 8 US residents is an immigrant following seven years in which a record 10.3 million newcomers crossed US borders. But more than half of those were illegals, according to an anti-immigration group's census analysis. Critics were skeptical of the study’s conclusions—which focused on the burden immigrants pose to society—but not its data. More »

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      immigration  • health insurance  • immigrant  • illegal immigration  • census

    • SF to Issue ID Cards to Illegal Immigrants

      San Jose Mercury News  |  Nov 21, 07 1:38 PM CST

      SF to Issue ID Cards to Illegal Immigrants

      (Newser) - San Francisco will issue its own identification cards, the city's Board of Supervisors decided yesterday. San Francisco is host to about 40,000 illegal immigrants, who will be able to use the cards to access city services and open bank accounts, though the details are not entirely worked out. City employees and police may not ask about immigration status. More »

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      immigration  • San Francisco  • illegal immigrant  • gender  • identity card

    • Spitzer Dumps License Plan for Illegals

      New York Times  |  Nov 14, 07 9:29 AM CST

      Spitzer Dumps License Plan for Illegals

      (Newser) - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is giving up on the plan to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants that drew a firestorm of criticism. “I am not willing to fight to the bitter end on something that will not ultimately be implemented,” he told the New York Times . The proposal became a hot-button issue in presidential candidate forums and caused Spitzer's popularity to plunge. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • New York  • immigration  • Eliot Spitzer

  • October 2007

    • EU Will Lure Skilled Migrants With 'Blue Card'

      Times (UK)  |  Oct 24, 07 9:46 AM CDT

      EU Will Lure Skilled Migrants With 'Blue Card'

      (Newser) - Facing a projected shortfall of 20 million workers by 2030, the European Union unveiled its own version of the US Green Card yesterday in hopes of attracting skilled migrants. The Blue Card will grant workers full employment, social security, and health care benefits, as well as permanent residency after five years of employment. Britain will likely sit the program out, reports the Times of London. More »

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      European Union  • immigration  • green card  • Jose Manuel Barroso

    • France Passes Controversial DNA Immigration Bill

      BBC  |  Oct 24, 07 6:14 AM CDT

      France Passes Controversial DNA Immigration Bill

      (Newser) - France's hotly contested immigration bill that includes provisions for DNA testing passed the legislature yesterday. The bill tightens restrictions on would-be immigrants applying for entry to reunite with family members already in the country, and could include DNA testing to prove they're related to people living in France. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • immigration  • DNA  • Socialist Party  • French Parliament

    • In Chinatown, Something Smells Fishy

      Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 19, 07 2:47 PM CDT

      In Chinatown, Something Smells Fishy

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s campaign coffers are benefiting from unlikely and possibly illegal sources, an LA Times investigation reveals. Checks for four-figure amounts are coming from dishwashers, immigrants unable to vote, and other unlikely donors in New York’s Chinatown, some of whom report feeling coerced by neighborhood associations. Other donors were impossible to track down, even with their neighbors’ help. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • China  • immigration  • election  • campaign finance  • Chinatown

    • Justice Switched Focus to Sex, Terror & Immigrants

      Washington Post  |  Oct 17, 07 5:09 AM CDT

      Justice Switched Focus to Sex, Terror &amp; Immigrants

      (Newser) - As the Senate Judiciary Committee today considers the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, data shows a profound shift in focus by the Justice Department over the 7 years of the Bush administration. The prosecution of mobsters, white collar criminals, environmental crimes and civil rights violations have taken a back seat to immigration, sex trafficking, obscenity and terrorism cases, the Washington Post reports. More »

    • DNA Testing Immigrants Stirs Outrage

      New York Times  |  Oct 11, 07 7:54 PM CDT

      DNA Testing Immigrants Stirs Outrage

      (Newser) - A proposal to test the DNA of prospective immigrants to France has provoked outrage and raised painful memories of Nazi collaboration. The tests would verify that would-be immigrants have blood relatives in France, but politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum have rushed to condemn the initiative. “I am going to ask everyone to calm down," President Nicolas Sarkozy says. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • immigration

    • Rules Eased for Farm Workers

      Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 7, 07 6:43 PM CDT

      Rules Eased for Farm Workers

      (Newser) - Faced with the prospect of crops rotting in the fields for want of hands to pick them, the Bush administration is quietly easing immigration regulations on farmworkers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Farmers have been caught between the recent crackdown on illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico and the notoriously inefficient H-2A program, which lets farmers apply for temporary immigrant workers. More »

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      immigration  • farming  • illegal immigrant  • immigrant

  • September 2007

    • Homeland Security Sues Illinois Over Worker Plan

      Chicago Tribune  |  Sep 25, 07 8:03 PM CDT

      Homeland Security Sues Illinois Over Worker Plan

      (Newser) - Homeland Security is suing Illinois for effectively protecting illegals from a new federal crackdown, the Chicago Tribune reports. A DHS plan has companies submit data on workers, but Illinois' governor says the Feds are too slow and no good: "The Internet-based program has a less than 50 percent accuracy rate and takes 10 days to get results," a spokesperson said. More »

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      lawsuit  • immigration  • Illinois  • Michael Chertoff

    • Congress Tiptoes Back to Immigrant Issues

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 17, 07 4:22 AM CDT

      Congress Tiptoes Back to Immigrant Issues

      (Newser) - Congress is stealing back into the immigration debate. After failing to pass broad reforms three months ago, lawmakers are focusing on less ambitious initiatives. Democrat proposals would give legal status to young immigrants and visas to farmhands, while Republicans favor guest worker programs and blocking illegals from federal aid. But these quieter moves will likely still draw loud reactions, says the Los Angeles Times . More »

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      Congress  • immigration  • reform  • illegal immigration  • guest worker

    • Jewish Hate Grows in Jewish State

      Economist  |  Sep 16, 07 8:15 PM CDT

      Jewish Hate Grows in Jewish State

      (Newser) - Israel may seem an odd place for anti-Semitism, but as more immigrants claim Jewish heritage to gain citizenship through the loose "law of return," though they aren't technically Jewish, neo-Nazism is on the rise. Poverty, unemployment and social exclusion mark the lives of many non-Jews in Israel, reports the Economist , and those frustrations explain why some youths fall under the spell of racist ideologies. More »

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      Israel  • immigration  • racism  • Nazi  • anti-Semitism  • Neo-Nazi  • Nazism  • Israeli Arabs

    • Mayors Spurn Sarkozy Immigration Crackdown

      Der Spiegel  |  Sep 14, 07 4:42 PM CDT

      Mayors Spurn Sarkozy Immigration Crackdown

      (Newser) - French leftists aren't about to help Nicolas Sarkozy make good on the immigration crackdowns he promised during his campaign for president. Eight Paris-area mayors have refused to cooperate with measures that include deportation quotas and mandatory DNA-testing for prospective immigrants. Human rights groups denounced Sarkozy for treating immigrants as "disposable objects," Der Spiegel reports. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • immigration  • French politics

    • EU Aims to Court Legal Immigrants

      BBC  |  Sep 13, 07 7:10 PM CDT

      EU Aims to Court Legal Immigrants

      (Newser) - A European Union executive is proposing both a "new vision" and new policies for immigration in Europe, the BBC reports. With Europe already suffering from shortages in many job sectors, Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said the EU should view immigration as "enrichment," and not a threat. While the US gets 55% of all skilled immigrants, Europe gets 5%, he said. More »

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      European Union  • immigration  • reform

  • August 2007

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