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They call Ireland ‘the land of a thousand welcomes’.

Whether it is or not is debatable.

In any case you could call Japan the land of 417 ‘welcomes‘.

Poor Chinese Indonesians.  Statelessness.

I remember seeing a poor Chinese in a slum in Tangerang.  She looked as smart as my Hong Konger pal K.  Suspect however smart you are you’ll never escape a trap like that.

- From Emma Lazarus’ New Colossus

Google’s co-founder tells the story of how he and his family came to America.

Immigration into Europe is part of the solution to economic woes rather than part of the problem.

Yet, many countries (Spain, we’re looking at you) don’t get it.

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As an aside, my pal wrote a nice paper on using incentives to encourage Europeans to have more babies and therefore relieve the growing debt burden on younger generations.  I don’t think she was too happy when I told her we should just import more immigrants.

The BBC has an article about Indonesian migrant workers being laid off.

Don’t Indonesian authorities have anything better to do?

Oh that’s right, it’s probably profitable for cops to find an illegal foreigner or two.

Unfortunately, the Canadian authorities denied them immigration [...] (7 years after the application was submitted) based on the argument that they will be a burden on their social system despite Api’s continuous assertion that she will take full responsibility of their common day needs.

101 year old man has to leave his family in New Zealand and make his way back to Briton.