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Mike Bloomberg under fire for 2011 remarks on race

The billionaire, 78, made the comments during a 2011 interview with PBS while he was still serving as New York City Mayor.




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How Scott Morrison's government forced Holden out of Australia by dropping subsidies

Scott Morrison raged against the sudden scrapping of Holden in Australia, but he must have forgotten the Coalition Government forced the car marker to close its factories in 2013.




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At last! This is what we voted for: DAVID GOODHART on Priti Patel's post-Brexit immigration system

DAVID GOODHART: The post-Brexit shake-up to Britain's immigration system, unveiled today by Priti Patel, should be welcomed on the grounds of politics, economics - and general fairness.




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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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ANDREW GREEN: Yes, he's listened. But if Boris isn't careful reforms could lead to MORE immigration

ANDREW GREEN: Nearly 20 years ago, I set up the think tank Migration Watch UK to give a voice to many of us who were concerned, not about immigration itself, but about the sheer scale of it




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Jobs bonanza for Australians wanting work in UK as new immigration laws will favour English speakers

New post-Brexit immigration laws in the UK will favour skilled English-speaking migrant workers over cheap unskilled labour from within the European Union.




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Protesters slam Joe Biden's record on immigration as they interrupt the Democratic debate

Protesters from RAICES Action, a prominent immigrant rights group, interrupted Biden's closing remarks near the end of Wednesday's two-hour televised debate at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas




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Unarmed Mexican man, 26, shot by an ICE agent while visiting his mom is now suing the officer

Erick Diaz Cruz, left and right in hospital, was shot on February 6 by an agent who was part of a team trying to arrest his mother's boyfriend. He had been visiting NYC on a vacation. Scene inset.




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Home Office was branded 'institutionally racist' in report into Windrush deportation policy

The review into the Government's policy towards migrants has seen the claim edited out of the final draft. It was commissioned in 2018 after the Windrush scandal.




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Bali chaos as thousands of Australian tourists are left stranded at Denpasar airport

The system crashed on Friday about 12pm, causing hours of delays for travellers venturing in and out of the holiday hotspot.




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BBC Question Time row after guest who asked about immigration revealed as Tommy Robinson supporter

The BBC faces another vetting row after the woman who asked the panel about immigration was named online as Sherri Peach, allegedly a supporter of Tommy Robinson and Britain First.




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Priti Patel is hit by new 'bullying' claims

Priti Patel has been hit with new 'bullying' claims as it emerges immigration boss Mark Thomson was prompted to resign from his role following 'uncomfortable' demands by the Home Secretary.




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Boris's border blueprint: Immigration revolution will end cheap foreign labour

Low-skilled immigration will be made virtually impossible under a points-based system as free movement rights are consigned to history.




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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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Tory Caroline Nokes slams Boris Johnson over past 'ill-judged' remarks

A leading Tory MP has accused Boris Johnson of making 'really ill-judged' comments in the past and told him to 'think very carefully' about the impact his words have on women and ethnic minorities.




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Pregnant mom is detained by ICE agents just moments after dropping her daughter off at pre-school 

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who is three months pregnant, was briefly detained by ICE last week in Philadelphia moments after leaving her four-year-old daughter at a school.




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How Sir Philip Rutnam's name has become a byword for bungled advice

Critics of Boris Johnson's Government and his sweeping reforms to the troubled immigration system will have a new hero following Sir Philip Rutnam's incendiary walkout.




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One in three Australians think immigration is too high while majority are worried about the economy

Almost a third of Australians who took part in a survey expressed concern about immigration. The study commissioned by Real Insurance showed overcrowding as an issue.




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Rebel Wilson EXC: Star is left horrified as her ex Mickey Gooch is restrained in elaborate prank

The Pitch Perfect star, 39, was at the Mammoth Film Festival for the weekend to support Mickey and his latest film Deported, and the incident occurred at a celebrity bowling tournament.




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More than 20 immigration detainees claim to be indigenous Australians

The government is now examining the claims of 23 immigration detainees who all claim to be from indigenous backgrounds - with some having no physical proof.




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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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Jacob Rees-Mogg wades into row over Oxford 'no platforming' of Amber Rudd

Amber Rudd was due to speak at the UN Women Oxford event last night - but was told when she arrived that the event to mark International Women's Day had been cancelled.




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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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CBP arrests Mexican man smuggling 5.3 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill at least 1.2 million people

CBP agents intercepted a Mexican national with 41.4 pounds of cocaine and 5.3 pounds of fentanyl in California. The confiscated fentanyl was enough to kill 1.2 million people.




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Brazlian man, 26, blamed in crash that killed four family members is cited for careless driving

Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo, a 26-year-old Brazilian national, was given a ticket for the fatal crash that left four family members dead near Disney World in Florida and was arrested trying to leave the U.S.




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Twerking instructor and Instagram influencer says she was raped by immigration officials

Geraldine Rodriguez (pictured), better known as twerk instructor 'Geri Hoops', claims she was flying out of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport when the incident took place last month.




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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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Leaving the EU will leave Britain with an extra £40billion, Budget documents reveal 

The official Treasury 'Red Book' predicts that cash saved from EU contributions will total £42.3billion over the next five years.




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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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Mark Latham lashes out at Border Force Sydney Airport coronavirus fail

Mark Latham raged at a shocking video showing passengers standing within touching distance of one another as they queued for immigration at Sydney Airport on Thursday.




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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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Bob Hawke's former business partner brutally attacked by a bikie at Villawood Detention Centre

Safwat Abdel-Hady was reportedly set upon by a furious Lone Wolf bikie after complaining about 'widespread' drug use at the immigration detention facility in Sydney.




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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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CBP finds 28 undocumented immigrants lying on top of each other inside a trailer in Texas

CBP agents detained 28 migrants from Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico during the search of a tractor trailer on Monday in Texas. The driver, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody.




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Four Australian women launch drive-thru wedding business to allow couples to still get married

Four Australian celebrants have devised unique and quirky drive-thru business models to ensure couples can still get married. Couples remain in their car at all times and prices start at only $400.




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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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Lawyer who helped Melania Trump obtain US citizenship blasts president's immigration ban

Michael Wildes helped secure US citizenship for both Melania Trump and her parents Viktor and Amalija Knavs as well as a green card for Melania's sister Ines.




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Hope Hicks pushed Donald Trump to take control of coronavirus briefings

Hope Hicks pushed President Trump to take control of the coronavirus briefings, which popped up his approval ratings for a few weeks, but have more recently tilted toward political disaster.




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New Zealanders in Australia unable to receive financial support amid coronavirus

Thousands of Kiwis are now struggling to stay afloat after acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge suggested they 'consider returning to New Zealand if they are unable to support themselves'.




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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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Australia's biggest housing markets could plunge by 20% as foreign student arrivals hit rock bottom

Westpac fears a housing market recovery that began last year will be reversed because of COVID-19. Sydney's median house price has risen by 19 per cent since bottoming out in July 2019.




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CBP officers discover 36 undocumented immigrants inside a tractor trailer in Texas

Border Patrol agents in found 36 unlawful migrants inside a truck during a road checkpoint on Interstate 35 last Thursday in Laredo, Texas.