Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Today I stumbled across Rinku Sen's Accidental American website. This website is a promotional piece for Sen's book of the same name. I really enjoyed spending time on this website, especially under the My Story section, where visitors can upload their own videos explaining how they became Accidental Americans.
The idea behind being ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Looking to immigrate to U.S.? Now is your opportunity because the US Department of State released the info for the 2010 DV Lottery Registration.
Applications will be accepted from October 2 to December 1, 2008.
Go to ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Some of the smartest words about immigration that I have heard in a long time, come from a Texas rancher Bill Addington and were reported ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Give immigrants back the vanished visa numbers. In a NYT editorial, the writer points out that our country has been putting the brakes on those that follow the legal path of coming or staying in the US. Due to our bureaucratic inefficiencies, more than half a million visas have simply ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
WSJ book review of The Closing of the American Border by Edward Alden highlights the draconian tactics U.S. policy makers adopted in their effort to battle terrorism.
Edward Schumacher-Matos writes:
But a sensible approach soon gave way to something more draconian, pushed into place by cautious bureaucrats terrified of being accused of ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Ok folks, I have finally set time aside to post on my blog again. I decided to do this after looking at my blog and realizing that it really helped some people in the past. Why stop now?
Also, I finally found a quick way to delete over 7000 spam comments ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Bravo Peter! When I saw your article I simply had to comment on how happy I am that I am not the only one who thinks Lou Dobbs is an idiot.
http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1173
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
One of my favorite magazines online (inc.com) posted a summary of the Presidential candidates' views on immigration law reform. You can read about it here.
McCain
First -- Spend too much to secure borders with Mexico using physical and virtual barriers -- fences and attorneys (Making this a priority before comprehensive reform ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
"The country ... needs to make sure it doesn't keep out immigrants who make the country stronger, the 66-year-old Bloomberg said. "Every year, Congress shuts the door to hundreds of thousands of doctors, scientists, engineers and artists from around the world who want to come here," he said. "This is ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
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The latest Visa Bulletin issued by The U.S. Department of State (DOS) for June 2008 remains unchanged in the employment-based categories form the prior month, the only exception being three months forward movement for India and China in EB-2 category. The Visa Bulletin ...
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