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US report: number of immigrant business startups has fallen
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A new report published today says that the number of businesses set up by immigrants in the US is falling. The report's authors and backers hope that it will influence the immigration policies of the candidates in the presidential election in November 2012.

UN commissioner calls for more aid for refugees
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A high ranking UN official has today put out a call for greater assistance for refugees. The UN High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller gave a speech on Wednesday 3rd October 2012, calling for greater political will and more funds to assist the 42.5 million refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless people who are to be found worldwide.
Opening of Nauru refugee centre fails to stop boats arriving in Australia
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The opening of Australia's detention centre on Nauru has failed to stop asylum seekers from making the dangerous sea voyage towards Australian waters. The Australian government announced that it was to reopen the Nauru detention centre in August 2012. The first inmates were sent there on 14th September 2012. On 26th September 2012, a group of 16 Sri Lankan men chose to return to Sri Lanka rather than be transported to Nauru where they might have remained for many months while their asylum applications were processed.
Headmaster says pupils should be removed from UK immigration figures
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A senior member of the Boarding Schools Association has sent a letter to Mark Harper the immigration minister to say that the government should remove international pupils at boarding schools in the UK from the net immigration figures. John Newton, the headmaster of Taunton School, an independent school in Somerset, wrote to Mr Harper saying that he should 'consider most seriously and urgently removing from the student immigration figures those international students coming to attend our member schools'.
Immigration reform law would create 1.4m jobs in US says report
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A report published by the left-of-centre Washington think tank The Center for American Progress says that passing the DREAM Act would add US$329bn to the US economy by 2030. 1.4m jobs would also be created, the report finds. The report was released in collaboration with the Partnership for a New American Economy, an organisation founded by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and the media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
UK Border Agency issues guidance for students at London Metropolitan
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The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has issued guidance for students from outside the European Economic Area who are students at London Metropolitan University (LMU). On 29th August 2012, the UKBA revoked LMU's highly Trusted Sponsor status which allowed it to sponsor students from outside the European Economic Area to obtain tier 4 student visas.