Mexico Debuts Quickie Immigration Clearance for Some Arrivals at Popular Airports
Monday, 08 June 2015 12:02 Do the immigration lines at airports serving Mexico's big beach resorts seem to be getting longer and longer? Actually they are, because our neighbor south of the border is enjoying double-digit upturns in tourism - and the lines will likely get even longer next year when current caps on transborder flight frequencies are tossed out.
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Many EU countries say “no” to immigration quotas
Monday, 08 June 2015 12:01 The European Commission has submitted a proposal to find a fairer way to admit and distribute asylum seekers in the EU. But it’s up to the member states to decide, and many don’t accept the proposed distribution of migrants. The EurActiv network reports.
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UK: Hundreds protest to demand closure of Yarl’s Wood immigration centre
Monday, 08 June 2015 11:18 The largest protest staged against Britain’s most notorious immigration removal centre took place on Saturday, as campaigners denounced Yarl’s Wood as an “abomination” that should be closed immediately.
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A story about an elderly Jewish lady and her Muslim neighbours that will warm your heart
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:56 Sometimes you hear a story that serves to counteract the relentless negativity towards religions that washes around us on a daily basis. More recently it is Muslims who have bore the brunt of this, with almost a third of schoolchildren believing that Muslims are “taking over our country”, and the fact that British Muslims face the worst job discrimination of any minority group.
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June Celebrated as Immigrant Heritage Month in US
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:56 June marks the second annual Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States, meant to honor the accomplishments and role of immigrants in shaping U.S. history and culture. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 American Community Survey, the nation's immigrant population was more than 41 million, or 13 percent of the total population of 316 million.
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Australia’s Tough Asylum Stance Attracts Regional Interest
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:56 CANBERRA, Australia—Australia’s tough approach to asylum seekers could become a model, with Australia’s government saying it has been approached by Southeast Asian nations looking to learn from its border-security approach.
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Cambodia receives first group of asylum-seekers resettling under controversial Australia deal
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:55 Cambodia received its first batch of asylum-seekers from Australian custody today as part of a widely-criticised deal between the two countries.
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A devastating Credit Suisse note says Britain's economy is doomed
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:55 Credit Suisse pension research chief Amlan Roy just published a devastating analysis of the UK's population demographics. He concludes, in part, that the ageing population of the UK is making the economy unsustainable, absent of some major change in demographics.
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Doctors and teachers gagged under new immigration laws
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:55 Doctors and teachers working in immigration detention facilities could face up to two years in prison if they speak out against conditions in the centres or provide information to journalists, under sweeping new laws to gag whistleblowers.
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Mexico to let 'Trusted Travelers' skip the long immigration lines
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:54 There’s good news for tourists and other travelers who go to Mexico a lot, and who belong to the U.S. Global Entry Program: The Mexican feds have come up with a way for you to skirt those long, long lines snaking up to the immigration desks at big airports south of the border. It’s already up and running at three terminals: the airport serving Cancun and the Riviera Maya, the airport at Los Cabos (Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo) and at Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport.
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New York immigrant becomes first licensed lawyer in the state after ruling
Thursday, 04 June 2015 13:54 Cesar Vargas was born in Mexico, and he immigrated to the United States without documentation when he was 5. The 31-year-old graduated from City University of New York Law School in 2011 and then passed the bar, but when he applied to join the New York bar he was declined due to his immigration status.
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US Muslim wins hijab case against Abercrombie & Fitch
Tuesday, 02 June 2015 11:41 The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Muslim woman who filed a lawsuit after she was denied a job at the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing chain because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons.
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Migrants 'turned away by Australia' saved in Indonesia
Tuesday, 02 June 2015 11:41 Dozens of asylum seekers whose boat became stranded off Indonesia's Rote Island are being transferred to immigration authorities, after they were reportedly turned away at sea by Australian authorities, Indonesian officials said.
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#WeAreSeeds Campaign Has People Talking Immigration, Racism
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:57 A grassroots network of young Americans just pioneered Twitter’s first “Immigrant Parents Appreciation Day,” prompting in one day over 8,000 tweets using the hashtag #WeAreSeeds to speak out against racism and share personal stories.
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More Than 5,000 Migrants Rescued on the Mediterranean Since Friday
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:57 They left Libya in 25 boats, and were picked up by vessels and aircraft from several European countries
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French far-right leader: Egypt visit failed to change view on immigration
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:57 The leader of France's far right National Front party said on Sunday that a visit to Egypt to meet with the country's religious and political leaders had no effect on her views on Arab and Muslim immigration to France.
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Behind the surprising drop in illegal immigration
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:57 This might come as a shock, but far fewer people are sneaking into the country across our southern border now than at any time in recent memory.
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Paris orders closure of illegal migrants camp in northern suburb fearing disease & epidemic
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:56 Hundreds of African migrants living in a shantytown in northern Paris, women and children among them, have been told to leave their tent camp after authorities said they posed high risks of epidemic sicknesses spreading in the French capital.
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Ukrainian Migrants Fleeing Conflict Get a Cool Reception in Europe
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:56 WARSAW — Volodymyr Zelenyuk knew it was time to bolt when the pro-Russian separatists came to the carwash he owned in the eastern Ukrainian coal town of Antratsyt and demanded his help making and repairing weapons.
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Illegal immigration slowdown changes border-security debate
Monday, 01 June 2015 12:56 Monica Camacho-Perez came to the United States from Mexico as a child, crossing into Arizona with her mother in the same spot where her father made the trip before them. “Nobody stopped us,‘‘ Camacho-Perez, now 20, said of her journey in 2002.
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- The Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez meetings on the Alliance of Civilisations with participation of the Moroccan Community Council Abroad
- Migration Flows Management: Spain Hails “Close Cooperation with Morocco
- The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) publishes a new report on the social and economic status of Moroccans in the Netherlands.
- France, Morocco Hold Unprecedented Meeting in Paris to Improve Migration Procedures
- Mr. Driss el Yazami on “decentralised cooperation in the history of Moroccan migration” at the Eugène Delacroix Circle