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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 increasingly strong rhetoric on the subject over the past two years.

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Setting a significant precedent by an over-whelming 8-1 vote, the United States Supreme Court last week ruled strongly in favor of an immigrant's right not to be deported when charged with minor crimes.

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More than two-thirds of Americans support a guest-worker program that allows illegal immigrants to become citizens, but an almost equal percentage wants to crack down on businesses that hire them, according to a national poll released last week.

• Watch This VideoFollowing all the rules, Indian national Sanjay Mehta came to the United States on a temporary work visa in 1997, hoping to build a glittering career in the fast-moving information technology sector.But nine years later his application for a green card remains snarled up in a bureaucratic logjam, and he looks with frustration at the strides made by illegal immigrants who he says simply jumped the fence from Mexico.
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During remarks in Tallinn, Estonia on 28 November, American President Bush announced that the United States would be making changes to its visa waiver program, indicating that one of the changes would be to add several countries to the program.

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The entrepreneurial skills of U.S. immigrants are gaining the attention of venture capitalists, who have taken notice of the $500 billion in shareholder wealth generated by foreign-born business owners in the past three and a half decades.