Immigration

Australia may begin releasing scores of refugees in immigration detention within days following a landmark High Court ruling.A majority of the High Court on Wednesday found indefinite detention was unlawful and overturned a 20-year-old…
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People born in India are now the largest immigrant group in the Bay Area’s two biggest counties. Santa Clara and Alameda are now home to 250,000 residents who were born in India, enough to rank as the Bay Area’s fourth largest city. But how…
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CHICAGO -- Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live.Mostly students in…
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Imposing a cap on the intake of international students would be like doing “surgery with a hammer,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller told Global News on Friday, adding that a cap is not in the cards. However, he said he reserves the…
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The federal government is proposing major changes to the H-1B visa program intended to allow U.S. companies to hire foreign citizens with specialized skills, including expanding the types of work not subject to an annual cap. While the plan…
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 This is the fifth instalment of New Roots, a series from Global News that will look at how evolving migration patterns and affordability challenges have changed life in communities across Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic.Michelle…
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