Number of immigrants hits record 37.5M
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Nearly one in five people living in the United States speaks a language at home other than English, according to new Census data that illustrate the wide-ranging effects of immigration.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Most of the nearly two million immigrants who arrived in Canada during the 1990s settled in one of the country's 27 census metropolitan areas, but still found it harder to find work than natural-born citizens, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
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More than half the new jobs created by Labour have gone to foreign workers, government figures reveal.
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The number of children women are having has hit a 26-year high, statistics showed today.
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The number of refugees worldwide increased by nearly 2 million last year, driving the total to nearly 14 million, the highest level since 2001, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants reported Wednesday.
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The surplus hit $22.5 billion, up 73 percent from last May, the Chinese customs agency said Monday on its Web site.
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Peter Hain apologises after ministers admit 300,000 more immigrants were working in the UK than first thought.
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Home secretary apologises for understatement by 300,000 of increase in foreign workers.
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The number of Japanese who have lived 100 years or more surged to a record-high 23,038 in 2004 in the world&#39;s longest-living country, the government said Tuesday.
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The cap on H-1B visas granted to foreign workers, set at 65,000 for the fiscal year that began Friday, has already been reached, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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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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The number of people living beyond 100 years has reached a record high in England and Wales, official figures show.
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The number of migrants to the UK every year will be 45,000 more than previously predicted, official figures say.
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Migrants around the globe sent more than $300 billion to their home countries last year, a "staggering" sum that surpassed foreign development aid and foreign direct investment and carries major development potential for poor nations if properly channeled, a report says.
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard official said.
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More than 1,000 illegal  immigrants from Africa land in  Spain's Canary Islands so far this weekend.
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And a nation of immigrants rediscovers the world.