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...Some countries are taking the renewed threat of polio very seriously. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced that all travelers from countries with polio, under the age of 15, would have to show valid proofs of vaccination before they got a visa to enter the country. India's health minister, Anbumani Ramadoss, stung by criticism, announced recently that that he will step up his government's efforts to eliminate polio in the country - and make a special effort to reach out to India's Muslims. "We are going to have a special program to enlighten them," he told the press recently...
...Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles has been fighting for his release since May 17, 2005, when Department of Homeland Security officials arrested him in Miami for entering the country without having a visa or passing through passport control at the border. But in a move that may come back to haunt the U.S. government Posada, despite his suspected terrorist past, was held on immigration violations, not terror-related charges...
...emphasis would be securing the border with more border patrol agents and enhanced technology. Then comes a guest-worker program that would require illegal immigrants in the United States to briefly return to their home countries to register at privately run centers where they would be issued work visas that could be renewed every two years for up to 12 years. For the next five years, they'd be given a more permanent visa. And then, after 17 years in the program, participants could apply for U.S. citizenship...
...novel element of the plan would encourage holders of the guest visas to return to their home countries by returning their Social Security contributions to them in a lump sum when they left. (Employer contributions would remain in the Social Security system.) Their Medicare contributions would go to a fund to reimburse hospitals for uncompensated emergency medical expenses, which are often cited by people arguing that illegal immigrants are burdening communities. Participants in the guest worker program would be granted what the authors call a "Good Neighbor SAFE Visa," with that acronym standing for "Secure Authorized Foreign Employee...
...government focuses on other business issues, such as gaining control of natural gas supplies to Europe and leveraging Russia's vast energy resources, that problem is growing. Allofmp3, run by a mysterious company called Mediaservices Inc., looks legit even if its legal status is questionable. The site accepts Visa and Mastercard, and a Dutch firm, ChronoPay, processes credit card transactions. The site declares that it is authorized to sell downloads by an organization called the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) and FAIR, another copyright licensing agency. Read the fine print and you'll see that Mediaservices claims it pays...