Immigrant ID cards and border checks slip towards 2009
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Byrne's 'challenging targets' challenge belief Immigration minister Liam Byrne has concealed what looks like further ID card slippage and set himself a remarkably unchallenging series of immigration and border control targets in a "ten point plan" for 2008. Humorously described by the Home Office as "challenging", the plan consists largely of low targets, targets already achieved, and harder targets lobbed off into the middle distance.â¦
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Foreign visitors at the 50 busiest land border crossings in 10 states are now being fingerprinted as part of the government's new biometric screening system, the Homeland Security Department announced on Monday.
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Iris, fingers, head, shoulders, knees and toes The UK, Europe and the US are planning to belt and brace their border databases by using multiple forms of biometrics to identify people.â¦
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Mexico plans to use cards with electronic chips to better track the movements of Central Americans who regularly cross the southern border to work or visit.
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Visitors to the US from 27 countries now need machine-readable passports if they do not have visas.
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MADRID, Oct 24  (IPS) - The European Union is set to open its doors wide to  qualified immigrants with its blue card system, and at the same  time slam them even more tightly shut to undocumented workers, of  whom there are 10 million in the bloc, including 700,000 in Spain.
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The government said on Friday it will temporarily relax new rules requiring passports for U.S. citizens flying to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean because of a huge passport application backlog.
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Over the last year, illegal immigrants and their families have retreated from community life under the pressure of tougher federal and local enforcement.
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THE NEWS: More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has not created a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of interagency disputes.
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It has taken us about 20 years of nonenforcement of immigration law -- since the 1986 amnesty -- to get into our current untenable situation. It may take a period of time to correct the problem.
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The United States said on Friday it will temporarily relax new rules requiring passports for U.S. citizens flying to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean because of a huge passport application backlog.
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After years of growth in "remittances," a crackdown on illegal immigration and a slowing United States economy appear to take a toll.
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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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A minister says fingerprinting of all visa applicants is the first of 10 changes in 2008 to make UK borders "stronger".
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That plastic card, the one with the lousy photo that's jammed into your wallet or purse, isn't just a license to drive. It's the green light to buy a drink, the ticket to federal benefits, the must-have document to get aboard airplanes.
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The number of illegal immigrants who died while crossing the southern U.S. border fell for the second straight year, officials said Wednesday.
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More than 1,000 passports being lost in the post each year despite the use of "secure deliveries", a report says.