Thursday, 24 July 2008
Critical: Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve says the Government should not grant an amnesty to clear the backlog of asylum cases Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers whose cases were lost or overlooked by the Home Office are set to be allowed to stay in Britain in what critics condemned as an 'effective amnesty'. The Home Office was engulfed in scandal two years ago when a staggering backlog of 450,000 cases files was found lying around in boxes, some dating back to the mid-1990s and beyond, including many would-be refugees whose cases had been rejected as bogus but who had never been...
Italy to Jail Illegal Migrants
Business Week
Business Week
EU home affairs ministers are gathering in Brussels to discuss a number of proposals on immigration, attempting to set a common approach across member states. Eyes will also be on...
Only a THIRD of foreign criminals in Home Office scandal have been kicked out of Britain
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail
Sacked: Charles Clarke lost his job as Home Secretary in 2006 over the foreign criminal scandal Fewer than a third of the thousand foreign criminals who were wrongly released from...
What's new?
The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte Observer
Old 97's – “Blame It On Gravity” (New West Records) **** Old 97's play Visulite at 8 tonight. $20. 704-358-9200. The band will also appear at Manifest Records at...
Fire and spice
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Dan Kaufman discovers spanking, pole dancing and raunchy burlesque while investigating Sydney's edgiest clubs. THERE'S a whipping post in the corner, the coat-check room is manned...
The Water Cooler
The Times
The Times
* After 28 years as a judge, Lord Bingham of Cornhill has sat on his last case - an appeal by a Lebanese woman asylum-seeker against deportation (Lebanese woman appeals deportation...
SA 'violating international law'
News24
News24
Johannesburg - South Africa has violated its obligations under international law in its treatment of refugees at the Glenanda displacement camp, Amnesty International charged on...
US lawmakers consider Olympic rights message to China
Turkish Press
Turkish Press
Chinese paramilitary soldiers march past the main Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, during a rehearsal of security drills in Beijing. US lawmakers Wednesday accused...
