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According to New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, America is committing "suicide" by turning away skilled immigrants.
The American Dream cannot survive if we tell the dreamers to go elsewhere, Bloomberg said during a speech.
Bloomberg is a supporter for immigration reform in the US and supports increasing green card availability for highly skilled workers and entrepreneurs.
Western Australia's Chamber of Minerals and Energy (CME) has stated that more skilled migration is needed to provide the skilled labour required in the resources sector.
Increased investment is driving demand for foreign workers. It is expected that just in Western Australia alone you will seen investments of about AUD $300 billion.
CME CEO Reg Howard-Smith said that recent research suggests that Western Australia will require between 30,000 and 34,000 new workers in the next year to year and a half.
The Washington Post Wonkblog is reporting a new study from Harvard Business School which shows that not only do highly skilled immigrants help bolster the US economy, they also help drive growth of US companies abroad in the immigrant's home Country.
In a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr of Harvard examined the economic benefits of immigrants who were granted patents in the US between 1975 and 2008.
Ireland, once an economic powerhouse of the European Union, is seeing a large increarse in emigration as a result of a downturn in their economy.
Over 3,000 people are leaving Ireland each month, the highest figure in over a hundred years. The number has more than doubled in the last two years.
On 23 September 2011, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas welcomed 50 new US citizens representing 29 countries at a naturalization ceremny in Washington, D.C. The ceremony took place during the Constitution Day and Citizenship Day celebtrations of 17 September 2011.
Australian immigration minister Chris Evans and the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Chris Bowen, have announced a number of measures to make Australia's international education sector more competitive.
The new measures are a response to a report Strategic Review of the Student Visa Program 2011, authored by the Honorable Michael Knight AO.
"Our international education sector is world class, and the reforms announced today will help entrench Australia as a preferred destination for international students," Evans said in a statement.