Mexican emigration dropped 42 percent in 2 years Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America has become less appealing amid an economic downturn and stepped up raids against illegal migrants. About eight of every 1,000 Mexicans emigrated between February and...

Worried About the Mortgage Market? Don’t Blame an Immigrant Anti-immigrant zealots, as part of their never-ending crusade to blame immigration for virtually every economic and social problem in the United States, continue to insist that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market was rooted in nefarious home purchases by undocumented immigrants. On November...

Canada’s immigration backlogs - blatantly racist South Asian immigration applications are disproportionately affected by quotas/targets and immense backlogs. For example, the quota, or target as Ottawa calls it, for the New Delhi office is 9,245 visas a year. The backlog as of April 10 was 145,556. With no new applications, it would take a little under...

Condelezza Rice on Immigration Condelezza Rice’s views on the following Immigration issues: WHY FREE TRADE WILL COME UNDER ATTACK. Mexico has benefited from Nafta. In the current globalfinancial crisis, of course, a lot of people are going to be questioning free trade and international integration and all of those things. ....

The Americans don’t want you - well we do! America attracts the best form of human capital- IT specialists, doctors, scientists, engineers etc. America is the envy of the Western World as most skilled professionals want to work there, because after all, it is the land of plenty. Most of these individuals enter on H-1B visas and all of them have...

Some firms are slowly realizing they’ll need minorities to survive When Vikram Ahluwalia immigrated to Canada four years ago, he couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t getting any job offers. In India, he had spent the better part of a decade working his way up to middle management at a multinational packaged goods company, so he knew he was more than qualified to fill...