IR There is certainly a sizeable minority of white Americans who appreciate the benefits to this country of immigration by people of diverse cultures.
But France has long been a country of immigration, and is likely to remain so as long as it has lots of jobs 800, 000, on some estimates that the natives consider too difficult, dirty or ill-paid to be worth taking.
Statements from the Republican Governor of Michigan, who calls himself the most pro-immigrant governor in the country, make it clear that in some areas of the country more immigration would be greatly appreciated.
U.S. immigration policy has long been sullied by racial prejudice: the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the 1907 deal with Japan to stop migration from that country, the immigration acts of 1921 and 1924 that sought to halt migration of all groups except Northwest Europeans.
Founder James Gilchrist describes the Minuteman Project - named after militiamen of the American Revolution - as vital to protect the country from the security threat of uncontrolled immigration.
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And in the early 1900's, Congress targeted Italians, Jews and Greeks by creating quotas that limited immigration by country of origin.
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What my administration is doing is examining very closely this Arizona law and its implications for the civil rights and civil liberties for the people in Arizona, as well as the concern that you start getting a patchwork of 50 different immigration laws around the country in an area that is inherently the job of the federal government.
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Most Afro-Latinos arrived in this country by way of various waves of immigration.
Mr. SEAN ELSBERND (San Francisco Board of Supervisors): If localities all over the country are doing bits and pieces to various parts of immigration reform, we're going to end up with a haphazard approach to it, and we need a national fix to this issue, not a local fix.
The Munich train story captured the attention of the country, symbolizing an apparent deterioration of public order driven by multicultural immigration.
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He called part of Arizona's controversial immigration law a model for the rest of the country.
This also suggests that we are not doomed to become a poor country if we move to higher rates of immigration.
With the rise of Catholic immigration to the country in the nineteenth century, Irish and Italian Americans were attacked for their religion.
Canada should strip its dual citizens of their passports if they commit an act of terror abroad, the country's immigration minister has said.
What about legal, not just illegal immigration: how do we encourage the sort of immigration that will strengthen the country in important ways?
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Ms Barrett-Brown also suggested that some large companies might choose to relocate to another country if an immigration cap left them short of the staff they needed.
It highlights the massive immigration of Muslims to the country over the past 15 years, and calls by Islamic leaders in Holland to kill homosexuals, subjugate women, stone adulteresses, and take over the country.
For Brazil, the information was gathered using statistics about the number of professionals allowed in the country in the past year, and an interview with the president of the National Immigration Council, Paulo Sergio de Almeida.
Waving mostly American flags, hundreds of thousands gathered across the country to rally for immigration changes.
Immigration from Mexico, the home country of a majority of newcomers to the U.S., declined 3% in January from the previous year, the Inter-American Development Bank reported in a recent study.
For now, the IRS is trying, as is much of the nation, to deal with the increasing pressures of an imperfect immigration system in a country that was crafted as a democracy by immigrants.
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Despite the social and economic problems this change is forecast to create for example, for the country's pension system talk of mass immigration as a solution has so far been strictly taboo among Japanese at large.
Faced with this challenge, Mr Sarkozy has tried to respond with messages about checking immigration, regaining control of the country's borders (talking about a possible opt out from Europe's Schengen agreement) and dawn raids on suspected Islamic militants.
"People who come here legally are a great source of vitality and strength for our country, but illegal immigration -- that's got to end, " he said.
And there's a lot more to morality than some of the most illiberal asylum and immigration laws this country has ever seen.
Today, faith leaders and laypeople are at the forefront of the fights for immigration reform in our own country and against poverty, mass atrocities, human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world.
But official figures show a large proportion of people entering the country in that period were not subject to immigration control.
By relying on the controversial program Secure Communities, which requires local police to submit to federal officials the fingerprints of anyone they arrest who they suspect is in the country illegally, his administration roped local police into the enforcement of federal immigration law over the objections of prominent Democrats such as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
And, of course, that there's immigration reform in this country and all the young people that I work with, which are mostly immigrants, know that's not going around.
"Immigration is not something new in this country, but at this time with a recession and a massive wave of immigration, it creates a lot of issues, " he said.
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