“THE country’s growing Polish community will soon be able to speak to local gardai in their native tongue.
Members of the force around the country have undertaken “basic Polish” language classes, according to the Garda Press Office.
There are over 130,000 Polish people now living here and the efforts of the gardai will help to [...]

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One commentator recently forecast that by 2015, one in every three Spaniards will be a foreigner.
This startling prediction gives an idea of the number of people moving to Spain.
It also helps to explain, perhaps, why this is such a political hot potato.
There are currently 3.69 million foreigners living in the country – or about 8.4 [...]

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Police arrested nine people and broke up a group involved in smuggling a form of crystal methamphetamine known as “shabu” that was until now practically unknown in Europe.
Those in custody, mostly of Philippine origin, are accused of distributing the drug to members of the Philippine community that live in Barcelona.
Shabu is a type of crystal [...]

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[For those of you that are not aware of the Georgraphy of America you can see that the state is miles away from the Mexican border, and so it is logical to assume that the immigrants are not just happy to take over California, Texas etc as they will take over the whole country-ed]

Police officers [...]

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One came to learn English, the other to earn better pay. Both have made Colorado their home.
Sara Long, who was born in Quito, Ecuador, and Araceli Horan, of Durango, Mexico, illustrate a significant trend in a U.S. Census Bureau report released today.
According to the agency, counties in the Denver metropolitan region gained the largest [...]

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Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper [...]

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New rules introduced in January mean immigrants with the right to live and work in Sweden are being barred from receiving Swedish ID cards. A Swedish ID is required to exercise many daily activities in Swedish society, including collecting packages from the post office, opening a bank account, seeing a doctor, or even hiring a [...]

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The leader of a Dutch anti-immigration party will call for a vote of no-confidence in two Muslim government ministers next week, citing their dual nationality as the issue, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turkish-born Nebahat Albayrak as [...]

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Immigration to Sweden in 2006 reached its highest level since records began. At the same time emigration also soared to a level not seen in over 100 years, according to official figures published by Statistics Sweden.
Swedish citizenship was granted to more people than ever before in 2006, a year in which the country’s population increased [...]

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AN Australian flag was ripped, stomped and spat on in an attack which is believed to have sparked an alcohol-fuelled mob rampage that destroyed Australia Day celebrations at the seaside Adelaide suburb of Semaphore.
About 60 police officers descended on the Semaphore foreshore after a mass brawl broke out among 150 drunken revellers about 10.30pm on [...]

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