Rebuttal to Obama Healthcare Speech - What does "is" mean?

" Can I ask each of you to take off your respective political party hats for a little while and just ask you to listen to my talking points.  Can I ask you to evaluate them without hitting the "Political Party Loyalty" reset button? For lack of time, I am only going to...

One out of every five killers is an immigrant

" Up to a fifth of killers in England and Wales are foreign, police figures suggest. Out of 371 individuals accused or convicted of murder or manslaughter last year, 79 were from abroad - more than 21 per cent. ...

Top judge faces sack for speaking out about immigrants.

Immigrants abusing benefits system " A senior judge faces the sack after saying that 'hundreds of thousands of immigrants' come to Britain to receive generous welfare payments. Judge Ian Trigger was told...

Crackdown on 80,000 immigrant wives with free pass to Britain

" A highly controversial crackdown on immigrants accused of abusing welfare handouts is to be unveiled by Home Secretary Alan Johnson this week. He plans to ban wives brought here, mainly from India and...

American Immigration Video Class 101 to 111 : Promise of Home

"In the past, schools taught about Americanization. Today they teach multiculturalism. And, in the past, we had Americanization overall, today we really have what you would call anti-Americanization, the...

Arab prince filmed his gruesome torture

Though only Saddam Hussein was accused of inhumanity, there are Arab sheikhs and princes who are far worse than him. According to Muslims, the princes of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are most evil. But the princes...

EMIRATS ARABES UNIS: Domestic workers face abusive employers

"DUBAI, 2 July 2006 (IRIN) - On an almost daily basis, immigrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), face mistreatment and sometimes physical abuse, according to human rights activists.Noor arrived...

Mixed families raise questions about schooling, social services

With the number of “mixed families” increasing as illegal immigrants give birth to children who are automatically granted U.S. citizenship, immigration policy is becoming an increasingly more complex labyrinth. According to the article, advocates for illegal immigrants...

Study: 4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born cit

It is natural for children to be with their parents. Yet, current immigration laws are tearing some families apart. Of the 5.5 million children born to illegal immigrants in this country, about 4 million were born in the U.S. legally and are thus citizens. As a result, if...

A Slippery Place in the U.S. Work Force

" Balbino López Hernández, who came here illegally from Mexico, closes his eyes to join the hallelujahs. But after the service Mr. López, 28, a factory worker who has been unemployed since June, shares his worries about jobs and immigration raids with other worshipers. ...

Children Of Immigrants Less Likely To Get Benefits

" Adriana, who did not give her full name because she is in the country illegally, recently came looking for help at CASA de Maryland, a nonprofit agency outside Washington, D.C., that assists immigrants. At the time, Adriana, 21, was a few days away from giving birth to her...

Sierra Leone's amputees: A refugee in Chicago

BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE After a decade long war, many of Sierra Leone's war wounded still slog through life, depending on handouts for survival. These two companion stories contrast the life of one...

Bana Bana and a new era for global remittances

BY ALEXANDER KNETIG, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE A lonely man is crossing the Savannah in his wooden horse cart, hand-painted in red, yellow and green, the national colous of Senegal. In this...

An Iraqi's odyssey into the French asylum system

BY ELISA MIGNOT, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE  "We were living in a truck when the Americans attacked," said the man in a low and shaky voice. "We hid behind the driver's seat." He was perched on a chair in the refugee service of Amnesty...

A Chance to Discover My Kurdish Heritage

My grandfather’s name is Jamal Fuad, but had he never left the Kurdish Babani Tribes of Northern Iraq, he would be known as Jamal Abdul Karim Mohammed Qadir Gafur, in the traditional way Kurdish men string...

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