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...high marks for its superior roads and airport, health care, low crime and decent air quality. The government makes an effort to retain foreign knowledge workers, who are viewed as vital to the health of Singapore's small but highly competitive economy. Unlike many countries, Singapore does not automatically deport foreigners who lose their jobs. Expats can apply for a special visa that allows them to look for another job for up to six months...
...outskirts of Buenos Aires for five years when an international uproar erupted over the decision by Pope Benedict XVI to lift an excommunication order imposed upon him by the late Pope John Paul II. And so Argentina, already dealing with a worrisome resurgence of anti-Semitism, has decided to deport the prelate...
...move to oust the MEK was anticipated, but the promise not to deport them to Iran was a welcome relief for the group's supporters and human rights organizations. For months, the National Council of Resistance of Iran has led demonstrations in New York, Paris, Geneva and Washington to protest the possible transfer of Camp Ashraf's residents to Iran. Al-Maliki's decision not to hand them over may indicate a small U.S. victory...
Groups opposed to Obama's immigration-reform effort have taken little solace in the stepped-up enforcement efforts, in part because the Obama Administration is not aggressively seeking to deport those workers who are fired for fraudulent paperwork. "Effective enforcement is pretty much past tense," says Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a conservative group that opposes giving current undocumented residents a path to legalization. "The illegal workers are clearly allowed to remain in the country...
...used two informants to record hundreds of hours of conversations with the men, all of whom were foreign-born Muslims raised in and around Cherry Hill, N.J. The first informant, Mahmoud Omar, was an Egyptian who had pleaded guilty to fraud in 2001. The U.S. government had tried to deport him on two different occasions. But then in 2006 the government began paying Omar and the deportation case went away...