Strengthening a covenant.
The share of the American workforce filled by foreign-born workers has increased from one in 10 in 1990 to one out of six in 2006. Immigrants thrive here as workers because labor shortages exist along a broad expanse of jobs. Close to half of the software engineers in this...

ARAB AFFAIRS - Nov 14 - GCC Ministers Propose 11-Point Program To Cut Foreign Manpower.
Labor Ministers of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have approved 11 recommendations to be discussed by Gulf leaders next month in Doha. The primary focus of the recommendations is the recruitment of indigenous GCC manpower along with slowly decreasing dependence on foreign labor. The ministers also focused...

Traffic in human beings: at the intersection of criminal justice, human rights, asylum/migration and labor.
I. TRAFFICKING IN CONTEXT Trafficking in human beings is a worldwide phenomenon that affects the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people each year. (1) The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that human beings are trafficked from 127 source countries...

Guests in the machine: guest worker programs mean legal inequality, tight government controls, and sometimes terrible abuses. They are also the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lot in life.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE TOWERS OF Marina Bay Sands will reach 50 stories into the sky, narrowing in the middle and splaying at the tops and bottoms, arching toward the water's edge like giant joysticks in play. A thumb shaped pier, known as the "sky garden," will hover...

Reinventing American immigration policy for the 21st century.
ABSTRACT With an estimated eleven to twelve million undocumented workers currently in the United States, the need for immigration reform is critical. As lawmakers grapple with the question of how to best meet the needs of the country, they should keep in mind that the United States...

New push for illegal alien "guest worker" amnesty.
ITEM: "Harvest havoc is predicted for this fall," warned the headline of a California Central Valley Business Times story for August 24, 2007. The CVBT story reported that the agriculture business lobby was pushing for revival of the Ag JOBS proposal included in the immigration bill that stalled in...

Vanishing dress code in a changing world.
By the same token, the global tension is not lessened by the farewell diplomatic tour of Europe by lameduck US President George W. Bush bullying European leaders into sanctioning and ostracizing Iran with veiled threats of war against fundamentalist Iran led by US proxy, Israel. In the...

Bureau of Immigration's 67th Foundation Day.
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) began as a division of the Bureau of Customs in 1899, in the early years of the American regime in the Philippines, pursuant to Act No. 702 of the Philippine Commission. The functions of immigration remained under the bureau until 1937, when it was...

Speaking Out; Filipinos start testing Australia's political waters.
Byline: Ignacio R. Bunye President Arroyo came back last week from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting on September 8-9, where she underscored APEC's continuing importance as a central pillar of global engagement and dialogue for our country, as well as an opportunity to engage allies...

Foreign labor mission warns of more unrest; Ends 3-day fact-finding mission in Mindanao.
Labor advocates and unionists from Australia, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea who joined a fact-finding mission to Compostela, Compostela Valley from May 2-4 to investigate reported harassment of union leaders and workers on banana plantations have warned against repression of union rights in Mindanao. "It was shocking...