Ed Miliband immigration rethink: Labour leader vows to ban foreigners-only jobs

In a speech in London, he vowed to stop ruthless bosses from undercutting the minimum wage by taking on foreign staff Ed Miliband today pledged to stop companies blacklisting British workers in favour of cheaper foreign staff. The Labour leader said UK-born jobseekers were being “locked out” of work by recruitment agencies. And he admitted Labour had got it wrong while in Government by ignoring people’s “legitimate concerns” about immigration. In a speech in London, he vowed to stop ruthless bosses from undercutting the minimum wage by taking on foreign staff. He also promised to tackle recruitment agencies that offer jobs only to overseas workers. And Mr Miliband pledged the stricter enforcement of minimum-wage laws to tackle the...

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U.S. ELECTION Obama, Romney tackle immigration in effort to win over critical Hispanic constituency

President Barack Obama assailed Republicans on Friday as obstacles to fixing the nation’s immigration system and said his opponent would block efforts to let young immigrants stay if they were brought into the United States illegally by their parents. In what amounted to the general election campaign’s first debate on immigration policy, Mr. Obama appeared before the same Latino audience that heard from his challenger, Mitt Romney, a day earlier. A poll released on Friday by Latino Decisions and America's Voice found Mr. Obama had a commanding lead over Mr. Romney among Hispanics in election battleground states including Florida, Colorado and Virginia. In the five states combined, Mr. Obama leads Mr. Romney among Hispanics by 63 per cent...

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Obama Defends Himself On Economy, Immigration

President Delivers Case For Re-Election LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (CNN) -- President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned case for his re-election on Friday while defending his record on the economy and his newly stated immigration policy. He highlighted the new stance, unveiled last Friday, as "the right thing to do" and took aim at his Republican rival over his previous statements regarding the DREAM Act that would have provided a permanent legal pathway for children of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as young people. "Giving them a reason to hope, that was the right thing to do," Obama told the crowd at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, about his announcement last Friday. He said Congress...

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Immigration policy shift creates benefits for K-12 students, schools

Carmen Medrano, community organizer for Together Colorado, left, talks to Yesenia, a 17-year-old undocumented student at Bruce Randolph High School who asked that her last name not be used. ( Heather Rousseau | The Denver Post) Although Colorado education experts hesitate to predict exactly how a more lenient immigration policy may affect K-12 trends, some anticipate positive impacts on graduation, dropout rates and even student achievement. But there seems to be agreement on at least one point: schools will need to fine-tune their academic counseling to reflect new opportunities. The new Obama administration policy, which grants qualifying young people a two-year reprieve from deportation and the possibility of legal employment, already...

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Dalton couple stuck in Mexico over immigration issue

DALTON, GA (WRCB) -- Angie Carranza admits her family brought her here illegally when she was a child. Now she's a working adult, and married, and wants to get on the right path to citizenship, but she could be stuck in Mexico for a decade. Angie was brought here when she was just five. Every memory she has, is growing up in Dalton. She started the process of getting a visa, but going the legal route seems to have back-fired. The couple talked to us via Skype from Mexico -- the place immigration officials say is Angie Carranza's home. "Dalton is my home. I grew up there. That's the home I know," Angie Carranza said. Angie and husband Ramon Gonzalez went to Mexico two months ago to finally get Angie a visa, so she wouldn't have to worry about being here illegally. It's something that's...

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‘Corrupt’ immigration manager convicted of fraud

Diane Serré leaves the Elgin Street courthouse on Friday after she was convicted of fraud and breach of trust. The former immigration manager accepted cash and gifts in exchange for immigrants receiving preferential treatment. Photograph by: Mike Carroccetto , The Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Evidence that a former immigration manager accepted cash and gifts in exchange for preferential treatment was “absolutely overwhelming,” a judge concluded Friday, after finding the woman guilty of more than two dozen fraud and breach of trust charges. “I am persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt that Diane Serré acted with the intention to use her public office for a purpose other than the public good; namely, for a purpose that was dishonest, partial and...

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Rubio Claims Immigration is Politicized Issue for Both Parties

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said the issue of immigration is being used by both Republicans and Democrats for political purposes in an election year rather than finding a real solution for the complex problem that affects millions of people. "Why is this issue simplified? I will tell you right now. Because it is powerful politics. It is a powerful political issue," Rubio told the Hispanic crowd of 1,200 meeting at the annual convention for NALEO -- the National Association of Latino and Elected Officials. "How did we ever get to this point? How can immigration be a controversial and divisive issue in a nation of immigrants?" President Barack Obama last week initiated an executive order that essentially took major parts of a conservative DREAM...

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APNewsBreak: Most Ala. firms miss immigration goal

By Jay Reeves Associated Press / April 4, 2012 FILE - This 2007 file photo shows Bumper Nets owner Homer Brown, whose business in Hoover, Ala., is among the employers that have complied with a new requirement under Alabama's immigration law, that all business entities in the state register with the federal E-Verify system. Statistics show that thousands of employers failed to meet the April 1 deadline for registering with the system. (AP Photo/The Birrmingham News, Hal Yeager, File) PELHAM, Ala.—Tens of thousands of Alabama businesses have missed a deadline set by the state's strict immigration law to register with a federal database used to verify the citizenship status of job applicants, according to registration numbers. Some companies...

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Scarborough: Nobody thinks Romney is going to win in general election

By Drew Katchen - Wed Apr 4, 2012 6:26 AM EDT Mitt Romney took home some pretty serious wins last night in Washington D.C., Maryland and Wisconsin. And this morning, Joe Scarborough and Time's Mark Halperin had a quick exchange about Romney's odds at winning the general election later this year. Scarborough said no one is expecting Romney to pull out a win. Joe Scarborough: Nobody thinks Romney is going to win. Can we just say this for everybody at home? I have yet to meet a person in the Republican establishment that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election this year. They won’t say it on TV because they’ve got to go on TV, and they don’t want people writing them nasty emails. I obviously don’t care. I have yet to meet...

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Google money going to law enforcement agencies

By Laura Crimaldi, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in an investigation that resulted in Google forfeiting $500 million last year will receive $230 million of that money, federal officials said Monday. Google forfeited the money last August to settle a U.S. government investigation into its distribution of online ads from Canadian pharmacies illegally selling prescription drugs to American consumers. The investigation found that Google allowed Canadian pharmacies that illegally imported drugs into the United States to advertise on its AdWords platform. The $500 million sum represents the gross revenues Google collected in ad buys from hundreds of Canadian pharmacies, plus the earnings generated from the illegal drug sales to American...

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