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Miss USA Serves Her Country
Miss USA Serves Her Country
May 30, 2007 11:10 AM CDT

Miss USA Serves Her Country

Mexico City crowd's negative reaction meant for Washington, not beauty queen

(Newser) - The boos that rained down on Miss USA during the Miss Universe pageant weren't meant for her—the Mexico City crowd was venting its frustration with the US government, organizers and observers say. Rachel Smith didn't help her case by falling sash-over-teakettle during the evening gown competition, but the spectators...

Immigration Debate Splits GOP
Immigration Debate Splits GOP
May 28, 2007 1:13 PM CDT

Immigration Debate Splits GOP

Fears for party's future amp up rhetoric for and against legalization path for immigrants

(Newser) - Deep divisions within the GOP over immigration reform have become increasingly bitter in recent weeks, the LA Times reports, with senior figures on both sides  engaging in a rare public spat. On one side are those who fear alienating the mostly white conservative base; on the other those who want...

Problems Plague Immigration Agency
Problems Plague Immigration Agency
May 28, 2007 7:46 AM CDT

Problems Plague Immigration Agency

Critics call for overhaul of inefficient, backlogged operations

(Newser) - The agency that will have to deal with the avalanche of paperwork generated by immigration reform can't handle it, the Washington Post reports today. With over a million citizenship applications already stalled in the pipeline, Citizenship and Immigration (the former INS) faces the possibility that its workload will nearly triple,...

Singapore Blossoms into Major City
Singapore Blossoms into Major City
May 27, 2007 8:00 AM CDT

Singapore Blossoms into Major City

Stern Asian capital set to emerge as a tourist haven filled with casinos, hotels, and amusement parks

(Newser) - Singapore is transforming itself from a dull metropolis famous for its draconian cleanliness into an exciting, vibrant, tourists' paradise, Time reports. Plans are percolating for casinos, skyscrapers, amusement parks, and a multi-billion dollar residential and commercial real estate development located downtown.

Americans Walk Soft Line on Immigration

Poll shows support for guest-worker programs, path to citizenship

(Newser) - Lou Dobbs, take note: A majority of Americans back key immigration reform proposals  making their way through Congress, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. Americans across the political spectrum say they support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and two-thirds back a guest-worker program.

Guest Worker Program Slashed
Guest Worker Program Slashed
May 24, 2007 7:30 AM CDT

Guest Worker Program Slashed

Senate immigration bill is assaulted by amendments from bipartisan critics

(Newser) - Key provisions of the immigration bill were altered yesterday as the Senate passed a raft of amendments designed to make the bill more palatable to critics from both political parties.  Provisions to beef up security at the border  were strengthened, while the guest worker program offering two-year visas to...

Immigration Bill Alarms Employers
Immigration Bill Alarms Employers
May 22, 2007 5:42 AM CDT

Immigration Bill Alarms Employers

Businesses call employee verification program an unfair burden

(Newser) - The new immigration bill now on the Senate floor puts a massive burden on employers, the Wall Street Journal reports, requiring them to verify the papers of all 146 million workers in the US, and stiffening penalties for violations. "It's like throwing a huge net to catch a few...

Senate Brokers Immigration Bill
Senate Brokers Immigration Bill
May 17, 2007 5:30 PM CDT

Senate Brokers Immigration Bill

Bipartisan compromise tackles citizenship, border security, but faces uphill battle on Capitol Hill

(Newser) - Illegal immigrants are offered a path to citizenship for the first time under a new Senate immigration reform package unveiled today. A precarious compromise hammered out by Bush administration officials and top senators, the bill trades hard-line border control measures for controversial provisions like a guest-worker program and a system...

Outsourcing Firms Grab Visas
Outsourcing Firms Grab Visas
May 15, 2007 11:51 AM CDT

Outsourcing Firms Grab Visas

Foreign companies use 30% of H1B visas to train workers in US

(Newser) - H1B visas—intended to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S.—may in fact helping foreign companies to train their workers, two senators argue. Data released by Republicans Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley indicate that nine Indian outsourcing firms use up 30% of the H1B visas granted each...

Dems: Admit Iraqi Refugees
Dems: Admit Iraqi Refugees
May 10, 2007 1:00 PM CDT

Dems: Admit Iraqi Refugees

House Dems back bill easing resettlement

(Newser) - With Iraq war refugees numbering in the millions and as many as 70,000 joining their ranks each month, House Democrats will introduce a bill boosting the number of displaced Iraqis eligible for resettlement in the U.S. A total of 18 Iraqi refugees entered the U.S. in February...

Immigrants Allege Border Drugging
Immigrants Allege Border Drugging
May 9, 2007 12:57 PM CDT

Immigrants Allege Border Drugging

Say they were forced to take psychotropic drugs during deportation proceedings

(Newser) - Two illegal immigrants say they were drugged against their will by U.S. officials trying to deport them, their ACLU lawyer said yesterday. The two men, one Indonesian and one Senegalese, claim to have been injected with pyschotropic drugs during deportation proceedings; neither had been diagnosed with a mental illness...

LAPD Chief Orders Elite Officers Retrained

Bratton mops up after May Day rally violence

(Newser) - Citing "things that shouldn't have been done," LAPD Chief William Bratton apologized yesterday for the actions of an elite platoon that broke up a pro-immigration May Day rally and said the officers involved are off the streets and will be retrained. The officers' prestigious assignment is in jeopardy...

U.S. May Reqire Visas From Brits
U.S. May Reqire Visas From Brits
May 2, 2007 12:43 PM CDT

U.S. May Reqire Visas From Brits

Radicalism among Britons of Pakistani descent worries Homeland Security

(Newser) - Immigration officials are considering making British citizens apply for visas to enter the U.S., the New York Times reports. The aim is to screen out potential terrorists among Brits of Pakistani descent who might slip through because of the longstanding waiver of visas between the two countries.  An...

Fewer March for Immigration
Fewer March for Immigration
May 1, 2007 4:05 PM CDT

Fewer March for Immigration

(Newser) - Thousands turned out across the country today to rally in favor of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But with immigration reform off the table in Washington, their numbers marked a sharp decrease from the 650,000 who congregated last year in L.A. alone.

DNA Tests Surprise Immigrants
DNA Tests Surprise Immigrants
Apr 10, 2007 8:55 AM CDT

DNA Tests Surprise Immigrants

Thousands of tests of family members fail to turn up matches

(Newser) - Thousands of new citizens asked to take DNA tests in order to verify the immigration status of relatives back home are discovering unwelcome surprises about their families, the New York Times reports. The State Department recommends the tests to confirm family ties in countries where record-keeping is poor. But an...

O'Reilly: Time To Listen Up On Illegals

Research shows immigrants (legal or illegal) less likely to commit crimes

(Newser) - Last week's smackdown between Fox foes Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera entertained millions of YouTube addicts but shed little light on the issue that was the subject of their screaming fight:  Do illegal immigrants increase crime? In fact, Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson tells Salon, immigrants both legal...

Immigration Reform Back On Bush Agenda

Even with Democrats more receptive, plan will be tough sell

(Newser) - President Bush is making another run at immigration reform, armed with the hope that the Democratic Congress will be more receptive than his own party was last year. In Arizona today Bush will reintroduce a package that sounds suspiciously like his earlier attempt: increased border security, better enforcement of immigration...

Illegal Immigrants Flee LA
Illegal Immigrants Flee LA
Mar 30, 2007 8:50 AM CDT

Illegal Immigrants Flee LA

Republican suburbs hold allure for illegals, but no hospitalilty

(Newser) - Illegal immigrants are draining out of the Hispanic neighborhoods of LA and into  Republican suburbs like San Bernadino, which hold the allure of jobs, but little hospitality.  In a detailed study of the demographic shift, the Economist calls them  them the "canaries in the economic coal mine, sensitive...

Iraqi Refugees Flood Into Syria and Jordan

Iraqis are fleeing to their neighbors by the millions, while the U.S. sits pretty

(Newser) - The Iraq war has created nearly two million refugees, and they're going largely ignored by world governments, the UN warns. "There has been an abject denial of the impact, the humanitarian impact, of the war," says a UN refugee agency spokesperson. Most of the refugees stream into neighboring...

Guestworker Abuses Cited
Guestworker Abuses Cited
Mar 12, 2007 1:57 PM CDT

Guestworker Abuses Cited

(Newser) - American employers are systematically exploiting the 120,000 low-skilled guest workers they hire each year, from stealing passports and Social Security cards to consistently underpaying them. “I felt like an animal without claws—defenseless. It is the same as slavery,” says one worker, in a report published today...

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