Immigrant Communities Await Word From Asia
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Hari Chandran spent much of the weekend on the phone frantically trying to reach loved ones on opposite coasts of Sri Lanka after monstrous tidal waves devastated his homeland.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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Some say strict measures endanger ecosystems, but others say those concerns are excuses for pro-immigrant sentiment
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After decades of being waved through, Americans returning from Mexico are increasingly being checked and questioned like foreigners, leading to wait times of two hours or more.
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Malaysia has extended an amnesty for illegal immigrants to leave the country until Jan. 31, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday, in a gesture of sympathy to Asian nations ravaged by a tsunami. More than 69,000 people have been killed in the region and thousands left homeless after a powerful undersea earthquake off Indonesia's island of Sumatra triggered the weekend tsunami.
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Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants.
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New feelings of insecurity in immigrant communities is helping fuel a rise in the number of legal immigrants seeking to become United States citizens.
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Australia&#39;s plans to create a maritime surveillance zone reaching into Indonesian waters is an example of its insensitivity to Asia and will bolster the view of Australia
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Migrants will be urged not to spit in the streets or litter, as part of a government campaign to aid the transition of newcomers into local communities
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STOCKHOLM -- The question rises from the rubble of the earthquake in Sumatra. It echoes on the Indian Ocean shores where bodies are still piled high and in homes halfway around the world where loved ones wait for news of the missing: How could God let this happen?
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Asians have become a critical swing voter bloc in the US presidential election race, with rival parties courting them ahead of another intense White House contest.
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VIENTIANE, Laos Southeast Asian and Chinese officials put the final touches Friday on agreements for next week&#39;s regional summit meeting to create a free-trade area covering nearly two billion people by 2010.
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Nation pledges all-out mobilization as snowstorms strand millions of migrants traveling for holiday.
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Last June, U.S. immigration officials were presented a plan that supporters said could help slash waiting times for green cards from nearly three years to three months and save 1 million applicants more than a third of the 45 hours they could expect to spend in government lines.
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Immigrants are waiting for months or even years to get into government-financed English classes, which often lack textbooks.
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Tsunami aid has brought together sometimes-bickering groups - such as Indo-Americans in the Bay Area.
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Some Flushing residents are studying Mandarin to be able to communicate with their new neighbors.