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(Photo courtesy of Julie Rhodes) (From left) Mike Rhodes and Jason Burton help Taye Eshetu Alagaw, who is believed to be about 19, with the movement of his crippled right hand at Where Love Is, a boys shelter, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Liberty woman's belief in miracles saves Ethiopian teen

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 8:22am

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The walls are crumbling plaster. The roof is canvas and mud. A plastic washtub, half full of grimy water, sits under a rickety rack of shelves. It is four paces one way, five paces the next, over benches and beds and a small stack of beat-up books. It is dark and dirty and smells of the chickens and cows that trot about in the courtyard next door.

But for Taye Eshetu Alagaw, this was home. And it might as well have been a castle.

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Immigrants' 'millionaire visas' fuel U.S. job growth

Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Monday, March 21, 2011 - 11:39am

McClellan Air Force Base lost 12,000 jobs when it closed in 2001 along with 29 other California military bases.

Today 15,000 people work at McClellan Business Park, a residential and industrial development in Sacramento County, thanks partly to $18 million invested by 36 immigrants looking for a quick path to U.S. residency. The investors -- from China, Mexico and an array of other countries -- have applied for EB5 visas, sometimes called "millionaire visas."

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A new way to attract tech talents to the U. S.

Erich Schwartzel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Friday, February 25, 2011 - 2:10pm

With more foreign-born students now returning to booming economies in countries such as China and India, technical communities hope a proposed bill will stop the brain drain they've suffering.

The bill, soon to be reintroduced in Congress, pitches a let's-make-a-deal plan for immigrant entrepreneurs: Want a green card? Start a company.

The StartUp Visa Act targets startup efforts across all sectors, but enthusiasm for the bill is especially acute in tech communities where foreign-born students want to stay and develop a company.

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LDS Church asked to support immigration Compact

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:01am

When LDS missionaries arrive in Mexico, they are welcomed with open arms; when Mexicans arrive in Utah, they are despised and treated like criminals.

Those are the sentiments expressed by Raul Lopez-Vargas, spokesman for a group of Mexican nationals that wants President Felipe Calderon to suspend granting visas for LDS missionaries in Mexico.

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US fails to tackle student visa abuses

Holbrook Mohr, Mike Baker, Mitch Weiss, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 6, 2010 - 12:53pm

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Lured by unsupervised, third-party brokers with promises of steady jobs and a chance to sightsee, some foreign college students on summer work programs in the U.S. get a far different taste of life in America.

An Associated Press investigation found students forced to work in strip clubs instead of restaurants. Others take home $1 an hour or even less. Some live in apartments so crowded that they sleep in shifts because there aren't enough beds. Others have to eat on floors.

They are among more than 100,000 college students who come to the U.S. each year on popular J-1 visas, which supply resorts with cheap seasonal labor as part of a program aimed at fostering cultural understanding.

Government auditors have warned about problems in the program for 20 years, but the State Department, which is in charge of it, only now says it is working on new rules. Officials won't say what those rules are or discuss on the record the problems that have plagued J-1 visas.

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