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European laws on what girls and women wear on their heads are encouraging discrimination against Muslims and against a religion that has been part of Europe’s fabric for centuries, Amnesty International says in a new report. […] Many Europeans wrongly assume all Muslims are immigrants, even though Islam has been a leading religion in Europe for centuries, the report notes. That makes the discrimination especially painful for the millions of Muslims born in Europe who are told to “go home” — when they have no other “home” to flee to.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1167022–laws-against-veils-mosques-fuel-anti-muslim-prejudice-says-amnesty

A Pew Hispanic Center study shows immigration began to slow five years ago and may have reversed by 2010. Economic factors, increased border control, and lower Mexican birth rates were all cited as factors. […]The downward trend includes a sharp reduction in the number of illegal Mexican migrants living in the US, the report says. The numbers of unauthorised Mexicans living in the US fell from nearly seven million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2011, according to estimates based on US census data.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17821781

The applicants, many from China, India and the Philippines, wonder why those who patiently followed the rules and queued up for their rightful turn to come to Canada are now being unfairly punished. Ottawa says they can re-apply under the new skilled immigration program implemented after Feb. 27, 2008, where new regulations limit applications to a small number of occupations in need of highly skilled labour. But the new qualifying job fields are so narrowly defined that many affected applicants, like Xu, will automatically be shut out.

http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/710389–immigration-applicants-upset-at-ottawa-s-plan-to-wipe-out-backlog

When it comes to bringing in foreign workers, there is no discouraging [Saskatchewan’s] Immigration Minister Rob Norris. He insisted last week that the federal government must increase to 6,000 the number of immigrants Saskatchewan can bring in through the provincial nominee program annually, up from the current limit of 4,000. On the surface, it seems the increase is legitimate. As Mr. Norris notes, Saskatchewan already has more than 11,000 jobs waiting for the newcomers.

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The anti-immigrant far right emerged as a potentially major force in French politics with a record showing by its candidate Marine Le Pen in the first round of presidential elections. Le Pen, who rails against European unity and what she says is the Islamization of France, took third place with more than 18 per cent of the vote.

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Mr. Romney may either be the last Republican candidate to get away with the tactic, winning the White House while overwhelmingly losing Latinos, or the first to suffer the consequences of a permanent demographic shift that will transform U.S. politics. The presumptive Republican nominee spent the primary season taking a hard line on illegal immigration, rejecting even modest reforms that could build bridges with Hispanics.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/us-election/stand-on-immigration-reform-will-cost-romney-hispanic-votes/article2410482/