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The head of Australia's Immigration Department has resigned, after the release of a report on cases of wrongful detention and deportation.
Prime Minister John Howard said he had accepted the resignation of secretary Bill Farmer, who will now become the country's next ambassador to Indonesia. Howard said he had appointed former immigration official Andrew Metcalfe as his replacement.
Last week, a report was released claiming that the H-2B work visa fuelled illegal immigration in the United States. This week, workpermit.com brings you the US Department of Labor's positive look at the same visa program.
In a move that was lobbied for by many large and understaffed American employers, the US Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced recently proposed changes to its H-2B work visa application process.
The number even exceeded the figure for 1910, the peak year for the last great wave of immigrants, said the report from the private Center for Immigration Studies, which favours restrictions on immigration.
A recent opinion piece reported in the Toronto Star, asserts that Germany's Christian Democrats want to make immigration an election issue and Schroeder should oblige.
With the lowest birthrate in Europe, the article says, Germany cannot fix its economy without first making its existing immigrants more productive by integrating them and second, by attracting new immigrants.
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At the moment, it is known that several blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour. Police said that two people have been killed and many have been injured. Officials shut down the entire underground transport network.
workpermit.com sends its sympathies to those people and their families who were affected by today's horrible explosions.