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Half of Syrians Displaced: 5 Takeaways From New UN Report
Nearly half of all Syrians have been forced to leave their homes, with the number of refugees who have fled the country swelling past three million, according to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees report released Friday.
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Torture in Mexico is 'Out of Control' According to Amnesty International
Fueled by the US-backed, transnational drug war, alleged cases of torture by Mexico's security forces and military increased at least six-fold in the last decade, Amnesty International said in a special report released September 4.
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The case for open borders
We wouldn't stand for a system that barred people from work based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. George Mason's Bryan Caplan asks why discrimination based on place of birth is any different.
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Malta boat sinking 'leaves 500 dead'
About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said. Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that the boat had been intentionally sunk by traffickers. They said the boat had left Damietta in Egypt in early September.
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The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret
First, Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.
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Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options
A two-day conference on high-skilled immigration policy, which attracted researchers from the U.S. and Europe, offered Microsoft an opportunity to voice frustration over U.S. immigration policy.
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Cuban migrants drank own blood, urine, adrift at sea for 23 days
A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks without food or water, according to survivors who reached the United States this week.
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Chinatown’s Kitchen Network
Lauren Hilgers on employment agencies that can get Chinese immigrants kitchen jobs across the country in a few hours.
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This Video Shows An Arizona Police Officer Telling An Immigrant He'll Kill Him If He Moves
“Keep your hands where I can see them, don’t move. You hear me? You have a license? Show me your license now. If you do something, I’ll kill you here. You understand?” Teodulo Sanchez tells BuzzFeed News the officer put a gun in his face during the tense stop, which police dispute.
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'We're in limbo': the families marooned at a British military base for 16 years
In 1998, Layali Ibrahim was born on the open deck of a fishing boat crammed with migrants, before they washed up by a British military base on Cyprus. She and her family are still there, embroiled in one of Britain’s longest-running and most bizarre refugee cases
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Death in the Sahara: An Ill-Fated Attempt to Reach Fortress Europe
One year ago, a group of 113 people set off from Niger hoping for a better future in the European Union. A few days later, they were left stranded in the Sahara Desert without vehicles or water. Only 17 survived to tell the tale.
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United Arab Emirates: Trapped, Exploited, Abused
Migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are beaten, exploited, and trapped in forced labor situations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The UAE government, about to take up an influential new role in the International Labour Organization (ILO), has failed to adequately protect female domestic workers – many of them from the Philippines – from abuse by employers and recruiters.
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Turkish-Greek cooperation in Aegean helps stem flow of migrants
Closer cooperation between Greek and Turkish coast guard authorities has led to 11,000 undocumented migrants being prevented from entering Greek borders and returned to the neighboring country since the start of the year, data presented by the Merchant Marine Ministry Friday showed.
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Canada to open the door wider to ‘higher calibre’ immigrants
The Conservative government plans to increase immigration levels significantly as it heads into an election year in 2015. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said on Friday that Canada aims to welcome as many as 285,000 new permanent residents next year, which is the highest planned total “in recent history,” according to the Minister.
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Germany 'would accept UK exit from EU' to protect migration rules
Chancellor Angela Merkel would rather see the UK exit from the European Union than compromise over the principle of free movement of workers, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel.
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Pleasanton fake university operator gets 16 years
A Pleasanton woman was sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison for netting $5.6million while running a fake university that was a front for foreign students seeking to establish U.S. immigration status.
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No, Your Ancestors Didn’t Come Here Legally
I guarantee you’ll hear the phrase “My ancestors came here legally” in the aftermath of President Obama’s immigration address. It’s almost impossible to find any conversation about immigration—between elected officials, pundits, online commenters—in which at least one participant doesn’t use the phrase. It’s an understandable position, through which the speaker can both defend his or her family history and critique current illegal immigrants who choose to do things differently. It helps deflect charges of hypocrisy (since most Americans are descended from immigrants). It’s hard to argue with. And it’s also, in nearly every case, entirely inaccurate.
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The Sheriff Who Sold Amnesty
How did a tough-on-immigrants sheriff wind up convicted for conspiring to harbor illegal aliens? Jimmy Metts, the longest-serving sheriff in South Carolina, exploited the contradictions between ant...
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US judge says there is not 'sufficient proof’ of 19-year-old girl's birth
Alecia Pennington (19) has been left in a bureaucratic nightmare after a US Judge refused to grant her a delayed birth certificate. The court decided there was ‘not sufficient proof’ of her birth, let alone of her claim of being an American citizen. The problem the young woman is facing is that while she was born in rural Texas, her parents never got her a birth certificate or a social security number.
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Passports for a Price: The Business Showing Poor Countries How to Sell Citizenship
In 2006, the tiny Caribbean state of St. Kitts and Nevis was in deep trouble. Its sugar plantations had closed a year earlier, gang violence had given it the dubious distinction of having one of the world’s highest murder rates, and only two governments on Earth were more indebted. A three-hour flight south of Miami, the country of 48,000 people was more or less unknown. Certainly, the two specks of volcanic rock in the middle of...
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