Canada, traditionally known for its liberal immigration policy and openness to immigrants, is witnessing a shift in public opinion and government policies. Under the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper since 2006, there has been a tightening of immigration rules, including tougher citizenship tests, increased investment requirements for quick access, and a focus on skilled immigrants over... 

Residents and police try to rescue refugees from a boat being smashed by violent seas against the jagged coastline of Australia's Christmas Island on Wednesday. Dozens of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying suspected asylum seekers crashed into rocks on Australia’s Christmas Island. Pictures from the scene showed the boat, believed to be carrying Iranians and Iraqis, smashed... 

Last year I wrote an article about how Swedish society is disintegrating and is in danger of collapsing, at least in certain areas and regions. The country that gave us Bergman, ABBA and Volvo could become known as the Bosnia of northern Europe. The “Swedish model” would no longer refer to a stable and peaceful state with an advanced economy, but to a Eurabian horror story of utopian multiculturalism,... 

May 1: Activists Juan Rodriguez (L-R), Carlos Roa and Felipe Matos, who walked from Florida to Washington to join protesters to speak out against stricter immigration, are introduced onstage in Washington. Florida has joined Arizona on the front lines of battling illegal immigration with a new bill released this week that seeks to crack down on the estimated 800,000 undocumented workers in the state. The... 

According to information in a new report coming out of Syracuse University’s TRAC, re-entry into the U.S. by unauthorized immigrants was the crime most prosecuted by federal authorities. In August there were 13,122 federal criminal prosecutions, and illegal re-entry accounted for 2,139 of those prosecutions. August’s information was the most recently released from the U.S. Department of Justice. The... 

They are cursed in cities and towns across Europe. On talk shows, in newspapers and in bars and cafes, they are dismissed as parasites, threatening social norms and culture. And when unemployment rises and governments impose cuts on public spending, the eyes turn again to the immigrants. In France, once seen as a bastion of European egalitarianism, the issue of immigration and racial identity has... 

People are leaving Europe because of immigration from poor countries and diktats from EU bureaucrats, right-wing firebrand Pauline Hanson said Sunday after abandoning plans to move to Britain. ‘I love England but so many people want to leave there because it’s overrun with immigrants and refugees,’ the former leader of the anti-immigration One Nation party told the Sun-Herald newspaper. She... 

Nov. 1: Natalia Garcia Pasmanick yells at a protest of Arizona's new immigration law while Raymond Herrera, rear, holds up an Arizona flag in support of its immigration law outside of a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco, a sanctuary county and city that received $754,853 in SCAAP grant money in 2010. The Department of Justice has spent tens of millions of dollars this year... 

The pro-expulsion campaign involves posters featuring a black sheep being kicked out of the country by several white sheep. Switzerland is poised to vote on a controversial law that will allow for all immigrants – EU citizens included – to be automatically expelled from the country if they commit a crime. Even benefit fraudsters and burglars are targeted by the proposed new law, which polls show... 

Lawmakers in at least 14 states announced Tuesday they are working on legislation to deny U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, although they weren’t specific about how they plan to do it. Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce said he and the lawmakers have a working draft of their model legislation and have consulted constitutional scholars to change the 14th Amendment and deny automatic... 

Merkel defended Seehofer's comments which seemed to be against more Muslim immigrants. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Bavarian state premier, Horst Seehofer, after he called for restrictions on the number of Turkish and Arab immigrants to Germany. Merkel said he was misconstrued. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the state premier of Bavaria’s controversial call for... 

As an EU member it’s obligated to take in asylum-seekers. But as the flow of desperate Somalis and others hoping to reach Italy and farther has increased, it is making it harder than ever, drawing criticism from rights groups. Reporting from Valletta, Malta — When the 24-year-old Somali chemistry teacher saw the airplane overhead, he prayed that his nightmare journey was finally over.?? Already,... 

Christian Democratic Union party leader stirs controversy following racial remarks; says ‘we don’t need additional immigrants from ‘foreign cultures’. A German official on Saturday called to stop Muslim immigration into the country, stirring public controversy. Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CSU), which is a member of the coalition government in... 

The political dislocations under way across Europe are remarkable. Some are inevitable, the result of economic and currency crises and the efforts being made by governments to cut spending and reduce deficits. But these have also changed the nature of the immigration debate. Ireland last week found itself facing a deficit of one-third of its gross domestic product as it sought to clear up the unholy... 

Where is MSNBC? The Inter-Press Sevice (IPS) is reporting that the head administrator of the Mexican Superintendency of Tax Administration, Raul Diaz, has confirmed that his government is building a wall in the state of Chiapas, along the Mexican/Guatemalan border. The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal...