30 Immigrants On Bikes Deliver A Labor Revolt
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NEW YORK -- The deliverymen of Saigon Grill labored for years at the bottom of Manhattan's food chain. Biking swiftly down the avenues in biting cold and searing heat, they schlepped up high-rises and walk-ups with bags of steaming noodles and shrimp fried rice.
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Many illegal immigrants in the United States are manual laborers on low wages. But there's another group that attracts much less attention: entrepreneurs who have set up businesses, created jobs and grown affluent.
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SANTIAGO -- Police used tear gas, water cannons, and clubs against demonstrators staging nationwide protests yesterday over government social and economic policies. More than 370 people were detained, officials said. About 50 protesters and 18 police officers were injured, none seriously. Senator Alejandro Navarro, who joined the demonstration against the government's free-market policies, was clubbed in the head by a ...
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A new wave of immigration is driving the US population's march to 300 million.
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Concerned about a crackdown on immigrant labor, more farmers have been moving across the border to Mexico.
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New York City's taxi fleet has the reputation of being dominated by foreign-born drivers, and now there are numbers to prove it.
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Mexican labourers living in the US sent a record $16.6bn (Â£8.82bn) worth of remittances home last year.
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Deep in the heart of Germany&#39;s Ruhr Valley, a column of 25,000 angry blue-collar workers and their families has taken to the streets of Bochum, waving banners and red union flags, beating drums and blowing whistles.
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More than 30 Cuban migrants, including  eight children, were in the hands of the Border Patrol on  Friday after landing on a tiny strip of land off the coast near  Miami.
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Their times were fast. So were their exits. American cyclists were simply overmatched on the speedy Olympic velodrome Saturday, all getting bounced in the preliminaries.
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In a nation with more bicycles than  people, two Dutch entrepreneurs are selling the concept of a  company bike, as an alternative to the much more expensive  company car that clogs up roads and cities.
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The Philippine government deployed trucks and vans to carry thousands of stranded commuters to work as bus and jeepney drivers went on strike to protest rising fuel prices, crippling Manila and other parts of the country.
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Clutching American flags and signs that read "America was formed by immigrants," more than 300 protesters on Saturday denounced a city proposal that would prohibit landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants.
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Dismay over Washington gridlock on immigration has inspired cities and states to pass their own measures, most of which make life harder for undocumented workers and demand that employers, law enforcement officers and even landlords act as the front line.
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Hundreds of thousands of Manhattan commuters were forced to overcome delays or negotiate alternative routes to work.
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A local authority has erected road signs in Polish to cater for growing numbers of immigrants from the central European country, but critics have branded the initiative &quot;bonkers.&quot;
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Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.