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    • Immigrants and Canada aren't getting the best from each other

      Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail

      The federal government has set immigration levels for 2007 at between 240,000 to 265,000 new permanent residents, up about 15,000 over last year's target. This is largely a result of expected labour shortages in the context of an aging population. Recent evidence, however, indicates skilled immigrants to Canada face significant barriers to finding employment commensurate with their experience and education.

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    • Undocumented Immigrants Abandon Farmers Branch

      Posted by Shemuses

      Undocumented immigrants are leaving the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch after voters passed a measure banning landlords from renting to them, reports Spanish-language newspaper Al Día. Carlos, who has lived in the United States for 15 years and in Farmers Branch for seven, held a garage sale hours after the measure passed in preparation for his family’s move.

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    • Violence Against Immigrants Builds

      Posted by Shemuses

      As cities and towns across the country watched the immigrant rights marches last week, some saw a spike in violent attacks targeting immigrants. In separate incidents, authorities arrested groups and individuals caught stockpiling grenades, semi-automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition in preparation for attack on immigrants.

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    rhoadesb comments on:

    Deported in Coma, Saved Back in U.S.

    I see no way this will ever be fixed as long as the world is driven by  the desire to amass money.. I do not say this in any altruistic sense,  just logic. This may be the best system we’ve got at the moment, but it is by no means a good one.

    While I am by far (for the moment) much better off than these folks, I am by no means immune to perhaps having to choose between living and dying for myself and or a family member because of monetary constraints at some point.

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    3:38 am 11/10/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    B.C. apologizes for Komagata Maru incident

    I’m all for political correctness under most circumstances, but this one kind of reeks of political pandering to me. And misplaced pandering, at that. Why apologise now for that incident, when a whole bunch of injustices perpetrated to two larger Asian immigrant populations in BC – the Chinese and Japanese – remain unanswered? Were earlier apologies for specific incidents supposed to be blanket apologies?

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    9:52 pm 5/24/08
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    theauthor comments on:

    Immigration raid largest in U.S. history

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    6:06 pm 5/13/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype

    Old story.  But people wish to believe it.

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    5:39 pm 3/30/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype

    divide and conquer

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    11:33 pm 3/29/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    NPR: Bill Gates Targets Visa Rules for Tech Workers

    NPR let Gates dodge most of the questions refusing to follow up or request him to answer the question they asked. Gates kept returning to his talking points.

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    11:15 am 3/13/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Microsoft | Revamp visa system, Gates urges Congress | Seattle Times Newspaper

    Gates seemed to laugh before he answered the question about whether more H1B visa workers depress wages in the U.S. The laugh seems like a tell to me i.e. he’s lying.

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    7:37 am 3/13/08
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    Shemuses

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    Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.

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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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