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Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican Presidential nomination, has once again found himself embroiled in controversy following his impersonation of Indian call center workers at a recent election rally. His comments have caused uproar and been slammed as racist, with Democratic Presidential nomination frontrunner, Hilary Clinton, among those outraged by Trump's latest controversial comments.

Larry Hillblom the business genius behind DHL and one of the three DHL founders was a notorious serial paedophile. In the Eighties he decided to leave the US to avoid tax and to have underage sex with young girls in Micronesia and the Far East. DHL's Larry Hillblom emigrated to Saipan part of the Commonwealth of the United States and lived there for the last ten years of his life until he died in 1995; his Second World War seaplane crashed into the Pacific Ocean resulting in the death of both himself (the body was never found) and two other people.

The number of Tier 2 Visa Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for allocation in May stands at 2,483, according to UK Visas and Immigration, Home Office data. The department in its April report said that its figures were correct as of 13 April, 2016.

Plans to allow businesses to recruit specialist foreign workers for up to 12 months, without requiring a 457 visa, have been scrapped by Australia's federal government. The move comes as officials consider other options to overhaul skilled migration visas to boost Australia's competitiveness in the global talent market.

Australian Immigration Department reforms are now focused on what is it describes as a 'new, simplified system that relaxes visa requirements, improves the visa application process and reduces overlapping visa pathways.'

The US visa bulletin for May 2016 has been issued by the Department of State, showing minimal movement for Final Action Dates for applications for employment-based immigration visas. This means that prospective immigrants hoping to complete their immigration visa process for lawful permanent residence have not benefitted very much from the latest visa bulletin.

The island of Tasmania in Australia is set to launch a major recruitment drive in an attempt to attract UK dairy farmers to work in the island's dairy units. Milk production on the island has grown at an average rate of about 5% per year over the last ten years. That is a 43% increase overall in comparison with a national decline of 4% across Australia as a whole, Tasmania is in need of UK workers to meet demand.