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Former speaker John Bercow is alert to pomposity in others but never in himself

The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. 'Brevity,' writes John Bercow, 'is not my strong suit.' You can say that again!




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Anne Tyler is a magician. You finish her delightful new novel feeling closer to life

Anne Tyler's prose style is clear and unshowy. Her sentences have no flourishes. You could almost say that their only identifying feature is their lack of an identifying feature




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Woody's fightback... from self-lacerating gags to a howl of pain

What a bizarre book this is: three parts funny to one part stark, staring horror




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ICE issues list of nine 'fugitive' illegal immigrants released by NYC's city sanctuary policy

'Dangerous criminals are being released every single day', an ICE spokesman said. Sanctuary cities like NYC limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.




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Boris Johnson hails 'new chapter' for Britain as Brexit withdrawal bill is passed by Parliament

The Prime Minister will vow to 'mobilise the full breadth of our new freedoms' on Brexit night - as his Bill paving the way for Britain to leave the EU was finally passed by Parliament yesterday.




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Downing Street rebukes UK businesses for seeking 'unlimited labour from the EU' after Brexit

Downing Street has rejected a big business demand to allow low-skilled migration from the EU to continue after Brexit, telling companies to focus on training UK workers instead.




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Kiwis in Australia call on Russell Crowe to back class action lawsuit to stop discrimination

New Zealand expatriates in Australia have called on Russell Crowe to support their bid to change 'racially discriminatory' citizenship laws.




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Government experts lay out plans for tough new points-based immigration system

The Migration Advisory Committee said post-Brexit arrangements to replace EU freedom of movement could slow the growth in the UK population and make people slightly better off.




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Sydney hotel now a secret coronavirus isolation unit

Dozens of foreigners who may have been exposed to the potentially deadly coronavirus are set to be secretly held in isolation at a hotel near the centre of Sydney, a source has revealed. 




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Chinese student lied to enter Australia defying coronavirus ban

A student bragged about how he snuck into Australia from China by lying on his arrival form, despite a travel ban to protect citizens from coronavirus.




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New push to set up English classes for refugees 70 per cent jobless year after arriving in Australia

The federal government plans to set up English classes in refugee camps to give potential immigrants a better shot at getting a job when they get to Australia.




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Essex lorry deaths: Two charged with 39 counts of manslaughter

Essex Police said a 22-year-old man was arrested in Northern Ireland on Sunday on suspicion of manslaughter and facilitating unlawful immigration.




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Kevin Rudd slams decision to send Wuhan evacuees to Christmas Island

Kevin Rudd has slammed Peter Dutton's decision to send Wuhan evacuees to Christmas Island, suggesting the home affairs minister would have treated them differently if they were 'white.'  




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Keir Starmer REFUSES to say whether immigration should come down

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he does not believe in 'a numbers game' as he was repeatedly challenged on his views on immigration.




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Farmers warn food prices could rise under new plans to keep low-skilled migrants out of the UK

Leaders in agriculture, hospitality and the care system lashed out at the Home Secretary after she dismissed fears over staff shortages caused by the proposed points-based system.




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Priti Patel calls rapper Dave's claim at Brit awards that Boris Johnson is racist 'utter nonsense' 

Priti Patel blasted rapper Dave's incendiary claims that Boris Johnson is a 'real racist' this morning on Sky News and BBC Breakfast, calling them 'utter nonsense' and 'highly inappropriate'.




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Los Zetas hitmen their life sentences OVERTURNED due to legal technicality

Jose Emanuel Garcia Sota, aka 'Zafado,' and Jesus Ivan Quezada Pina, aka 'Loco,' were convicted three years ago in the February 2011 murder of ICE agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.




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Undocumented Mexican man, 34, 'kills himself' while in ICE custody at jail in Ohio

David Hernández Colula, an undocumented male immigrant from Mexico, died Thursday by apparent suicide at a jail in Ohio, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday.




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Mexican father-of-four locks himself inside his car for three hours before ICE officers left

Octavio Martínez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, locked himself in his vehicle for three hours and refused to honor ICE's request to turn himself in outside his California home.




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ICE gives pregnant mom detained near daughter's school 45 days to self-deport to El Salvador

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who has been in the U.S. since 2011, was given 45 days to self-deport to El Salvador after being detained by federal agents outside of her daughter's school.




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Blind man flunks his citizenship test because they tried to make him read a sentence

Lucio Delgado, from Mexico, took to Facebook last week to share that a letter he received informed him that he 'failed to successfully pass the reading test.'




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ICE arrests illegal immigrant after NYPD releases him after charging him with child rape 

Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday after originally being arrested in New York last Thursday. NYPD released him despite ICE detainer.




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New York ICE officials accused of rigging algorithms to detain immigrants in detention centers 

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against ICE claiming New York officers rigged algorithms to always recommend people arrested for immigration violations be detained.




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Sajid Javid is accused of stoking the bullying storm engulfing Priti Patel

The allies claim Sir Philip's live statement to the BBC - in which he said he was planning to take her and the department to court for constructive dismissal - had 'Javid's fingerprints all over it'.




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Former British Army sergeant is stuck in Fiji and being prevented from returning to his wife

Ilaitia Cokanasiga, 48, from Fiji, said he felt 'immense pride' to have served with the UK armed forces but now feels 'betrayed' after he was let down by the government.




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Rishi Sunak uses Budget to hike cost for migrants to use the NHS

Rishi Sunak today announced he is hiking the amount it costs migrants to use the NHS as the government's spending watchdog predicted net migration could fall to 129,000.




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Passenger fury as Heathrow Airport fails to insist on social distancing in border control queues

Packed like sardines as they wait to clear immigration and collect their luggage, there was disturbingly little evidence of social distancing to help fight coronavirus at Heathrow Airport today.




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Coronavirus scare hits ICE facility in New Jersey jail as first detainee tests positive

A 37-year-old Mexican immigrant being held at the Bergen County Jail, which houses dozens of other undocumented migrants.




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Coronavirus infected tourist is accused of holidaying in Australia KNOWING she could have COVID-19

The woman, 37, is being held in an immigration detention facility after she allegedly took a trip to Queensland's Hamilton Island after being tested and discharged from hospital.




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ICE detainees in Alabama threaten suicide if those infected with coronavirus are not removed 

Two men detained in the immigration detention unit in Gadsden, Alabama, threatened to jump from a ledge with bed sheets tied around their necks on March 20 because of coronavirus fears.




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Bali lockdown: Tourists use SCUBA gear as PPE, armed guards wander streets and beaches are deserted

Bali has reported nine cases of coronavirus and two deaths while Indonesia is expected to past 1000 cases and currently has a death toll of 55 people.




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Boris Johnson's new-look Cabinet gives the green light to points-based immigration system

Boris Johnson's new-look Cabinet today agreed to the Prime Minister's plans to introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system at the start of 2021.




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Immigration barrister, 40, avoids being struck off after headbutting female lawyer in Chelsea

Disciplinary chiefs handed immigration law specialist Rashid Ahmed just a three-month suspension after he left his junior colleague covered in blood on the ground on King's Road in Chelsea.




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Labor party calls to relax visa restrictions for foreign nurses to keep them working in hospitals

There are around 1,000 foreign qualified nurses in Australia who are unable to work in Australian hospitals because of sanctions on working holiday visas.




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Selena Gomez thinks Donald Trump can do better on immigration

The president's name came up when the Rare singer spoke to April issue of Vogue Arabia to promote the series Living Undocumented for Netflix, which she is a producer on.




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Etihad to trial airport devices that may be able to identify passengers with coronavirus

Etihad has partnered with Australian company Elenium Automation to test the new technology, which will be trialled at the end of April and throughout May at Abu Dhabi International Airport.




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Immigration agents probed over alleged abuse of woman who gave birth at border patrol station

Border patrol agents at the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station near San Diego, California, have come under fire over the treatment of a 27-year-old Guatemalan woman when she delivered her baby.




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Arizona CBP agents find two migrants in a car trunk and send them back across the Mexico border

CBP agents detained and quickly deported two Honduran migrants who were found hiding in the trunk of a car that was stopped Sunday near Gila Bend, Arizona.




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ICE to release 693 undocumented immigrants from overcrowded detention centers

The decision comes on the heel of mounting pressure from Democrats and pro-immigrant groups who have demanded the mass liberation of more than 34,000 incarcerated.




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Man charged with manslaughter in connection with deaths of 39 migrants found in lorry in Essex 

Ronan Hughes, of Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, is due to appear at Dublin's High Court on Tuesday charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, as well as immigration offences.




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Extradition hearing begins for man arrested in Dublin over manslaughter of Vietnamese immigrants

Ronan Hughes, 40, from Silverstream, Tyholland in Co Monaghan, was detained on Monday following the execution of a European arrest warrant in the Irish Republic.




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Dozens of homeless people are sleeping at London's deserted Heathrow airport during coronavirus

One of the rough sleepers at Heathrow Airport, a professional woman in her 40s from west Africa, said the number of homeless people there had doubled since October.




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Immigration judge Mark Davies, who once posed naked as Mr July, announces retirement

Immigration judge Mark Davies is retiring after a 44-year career in law. The outgoing judge from Sheffield has previously drawn attention for a nude calendar and for 'prejudicial remarks' about Iranians.




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Border Force officers in France seize £20million worth of cocaine

The haul, which had a potential street value of around £20 million, was discovered within a number of plywood boxes in a lorry carrying a consignment of car parts.




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Immigration removal centres nearly empty after authorities release 700 detainees

More than 700 detainees have been released from immigration centres up and down the UK, according to official figures revealed today.




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Elyse Knowles and Josh Barker recreates Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik's famous handstand photo shoot

Elyse Knowles and long-time boyfriend Josh Barker have recreated Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik's famous handstand pose for a photo shoot with WHO magazine.




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Gigi Hadid steps out in high-waisted leather trousers in Milan

Gigi Hadid was spotted in Milan on Wednesday following the news that Zayn's youngest sibling had tied the knot with her partner Martin Tiser on Monday in their home city of Bradford.




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Judy Murray and Kim Sears' support isn't enough to save Andy Murray from men's doubles knock-out

The former world No 1 and his partner were beaten in their first-round clash in front of the Briton's mum Judy and wife Kim who were supporting Andy in the stands.




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Vaping firm's advert is BANNED for suggesting its products were endorsed by Sir Mo Farah

Sir Mo himself took to social media in March to make clear the advertisement by the UK-based company Diamond Mist had nothing to do with him.




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Mo Farah wins record sixth successive Great North Run as British star sets ANOTHER personal best

Sir Mo Farah set a personal best for the half-marathon in the process of winning the Great North Run for a record sixth consecutive year yesterday.