US high-tech companies lobbying Congress for immigration changes
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12:53 27/12/2006
• Watch This Video Advanced technology industrial interests in the United States are lobbying members of Congress to change immigration policies toward highly skilled immigrants. Some recent studies...
International Migrants Day
13:28 18/12/2006
• Watch This Video 18 December 2006: International Migrants Day As of the beginning of this year, at least 191 million people are living and working in a country not of their origin. One person of...
Canada begins pilot off-campus work program for private schools
10:57 18/12/2006
Late last week, Canada 's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Monte Solberg announced that the new government will begin discussions with interested provinces and territories to begin a pilot...
US report - illegal immigrants not a burden to health care system
10:21 15/12/2006
• Watch This Video A new report released last month in the United States concludes that illegal immigrants do not pose a disproportionate burden upon the U.S. health care system, contrary to...
Help announced for bringing foreign workers to Ontario, Canada
14:48 12/12/2006
Improvements to the delivery of the Foreign Worker Program in Ontario were announced on 08 December by Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development Canada , and Michael Colle,...
A Palestinian diaspora
12:44 11/12/2006
Palestinians are increasingly leaving their home to live abroad in such places as Canada and Cuba. Factories are closing down, mostly because of increasing violence and economic uncertainty. 20...
