The Two Way Street

Lured by high tax free salaries westerners move to work in Dubai and similar locations. Such moves are not a one-way deal. The attractive pay and luxury home require that you agree to live by the cultural mores and...

GET OUTRAGED, TAXPAYER! IMMIGRANTS GET MORE BENEFITS AT 65 THAN NATURAL BORN ...

"If the immigrant is over 65 they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than (author's) mom gets for Social Security, and she worked from 1944 till 2004, only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there Is a "catch 22".   It is interesting...

The Seedier side of NY's Dollar -dance clubs

" NEW YORK (AP) -- As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soda and waiting for men to approach and hand them...

Break a leg taken literally

COLIN MCKIM, THE PACKET AND TIMES ...

Fear grips immigrants after Miss. plant raid

"A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again. Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were detained, creating...

British immigrant facing deportation for 1994 felony conviction

" NEWPORT NEWS --  A British immigrant in the U.S. for 25 years is facing deportation. Daniel Bowman sits in jail for what he calls a bad mistake he made in May 1994, when he, at age 20, and another man stole...

U.S. Could end ban on HIV-Positive Travellers, Immigrants

The US ban on visitors with HIV coming to the country could soon be at an end, as a senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS could ease restrictions for travel. Since 1987, the US has banned anyone with HIV from travelling...

German Jews angry that citizenship test ignores Holocaust

A new citizenship test in Germany is coming under fire today by Jews living there because it does not mention the Holocaust.It does however, mention many other less important points in German history.Starting in...

25% of Berlin's Population has Foreign Roots

A new study out this week highlights how popular Berlin has come for foreigners.  The City's Fast Paced urban lifestyle has been compared to New York City of the 1980's and this study is simply more to reinforce (as an American living in Berlin) something most of us...

San Francisco Officials Protecting Honduran Drug Dealers

"San Francisco officials possibly in violation of the law operated a special tax-funded service for illegal Honduran drug lords to protect the “youths” from federal immigration officials. When the city was told...

Swiss "Reject" Controversial Immigration Proposal !

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe land of Chocolate and Secret Bank accounts, have dismissed 8 of 10 Cantons proposed by the Swiss Peoples Party (SVP) proposal that naturalisation of immigrants be...

WaPo To Run Explosive Series On Immigrant Detention Program

"Detention Nation": a major investigation of the US's detention program.The Washington Post is set to roll out a major investigative series by prizewinning reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein,centering on the...

May Day March Draws Smaller Crowd

Where is the leadership of the Latino community? How will anyone take serious the concerns of Latinos if they don't come together with a unified agenda?  " In Los Angeles, where about 8,500 people took part in three separate marches that merged to rally at 1st Street...

Latinos outraged over CBS report

"As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems. Weighed down by record-low ratings at the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News,” and by reports suggesting she will leave that post two years before her multimillion-dollar contract expires, Couric now has civil...

At Least 300 Workers Taken From Chicken Factories, Company Not Facing Any Cha...

At least 300 workers have been arrested in chicken factories in Texas."Federal agents arrested hundreds of people in raids at Pilgrim's Pride chicken plants in five states, the latest crackdown on illegal immigrant labor at the nation's poultry producers.In separate sweeps...

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