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Australia's policy of encouraging skilled migrants aged 15 to 34 is ensuring more Australian tax payers to support the retired, with this age group now making up more than 70% of skilled immigration to Australia.
Many U.S. citizens are wrongly concerned that Latino immigrants will force America to speak Spanish, possibly even creating a bilingual country. According to an academic study published on Wednesday, these fears are entirely unfounded.
Late last week, officials in the U.S. Pennsylvania town of Hazleton strengthened a local law designed to drive illegal immigrants away in a bid to defend the measure against legal challenges. The new law, approved by a vote of 4-1, increases pressure on local employers to avoid hiring illegal immigrants and raises fines for landlords who rent rooms to them. Landlords will be fined $
Civil rights campaigners have filed to sue the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton, seeking to block one of America's toughest local laws against illegal immigrants.
The suit says Hazelton's City Council violated the U.S. constitution when it passed a law denying business permits to companies that hire illegal aliens and fining landlords who rent homes to them.
The number of immigrants who came to Ireland in the 12 months to April 2006 is estimated to have been 86,900, the highest figure recorded since annual migration estimates began in 1987.
Releasing the figures Sept. 12, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said the estimated number of emigrants in the same period was 17,000, which gave a net migration figure of 69,900 compared with 53,400 in the 12 months to April 2005.