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...

Marginalizing the middle class: cable TV heavyweight Lou Dobbs lambasts big government and big business for stripping hardworking Americans of their money and dignity.
LOU DOBBS, AUTHOR of Exporting America and Space: The Next Business Frontier and award-winning anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," has received the Peabody Award, Luminary Award, Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans and an Emmy Lifetime Award. Unafraid to take on important issues, Dobbs...

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich.
By Ulrich Herbert (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi plus 510pp. $80.00). This book is a translation of Ulrich Herbert's Fremdarbeiter: Politik und Praxis des "Auslander-Einsatzes" in der Kriegswirtschaft des Dritten Reiches (1985), which has been slightly revised, losing some of its original footnotes. Because the German edition...

Back in the CNMI: The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is no model when it comes to immigration.
Never under any condition should this nation look at an immigrant as primarily a labor unit. He should always be looked at primarily as a future citizen. --Theodore Roosevelt, 1917 OVER the next several months, Congress will debate whether our country needs to import more...

Hired hands needed: the impact of globalization and human rights law on migrant workers in the United States.
"Let's cross the border. I'll take you for $300 each. It's the ultimate for the poor. You won't have to sleep on the floor. Not like here, where you're dying of hunger. It's the land of money where you'll find beautiful houses and big cars. It's the most beautiful...

GoffWilson Opens Nashua Office.
Immigration law firm adds to Concord, NH and Paris locations CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Concord-based law office of GoffWilson today announced it has opened a new office in Nashua at 20 Trafalgar Square, Suite 424. The office will help GoffWilson meet rapidly growing demand...

Recent Texas State Study of Illegal Alien Fiscal Costs: A First Effort With a Flawed Methodology Other States Should Not Use, Says FAIR.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- FAIR calls into question the legitimacy of the findings in a recently released Texas State Comptroller's study of the fiscal impact illegal aliens have on the state. According to Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, it is "the first time any state has done a comprehensive...

Kazakhstan issues quotas and other rules for foreign workers.
The Government of Kazakhstan has enacted new rules concerning Foreign Labor. The new rules apply to legal entities or individuals with whom an employee has a contract. The Government of Kazakhstan may now establish annual quotas according to the number of foreigner workers. Local executive bodies must show a...

Lan, Pei-Chia. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan.
Lan, Pei-Chia. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 304 pages. Paper, $22.95. Historically, in most cultures, women have performed the bulk of household work. Today, migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the...

Taiwan may halt import of labor; From RP, Indonesia.
TAIPEI, Sept. 7 (AFP) -- Taiwan may freeze labor imports from Indonesia and the Philippines if the two countries refuse to go along with a cut in minimum wages for workers they send to the island, a labor official said Friday. Taiwan this month slashed the minimum...