In Australia it runs Great Southern Railways as well as ports, patrol boats and immigration services including an immigration centre on Christmas Island.
The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, excoriated Democrats for trying to bring up several other issues, including an immigration bill and a Pentagon policy measure that includes authorization to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" ban on open service by gay men and lesbians.
But it was also imbued with the sense that Mr. Obama had better make good on the promises he failed to keep during his first term, including an immigration overhaul, as well as a repeal of the law barring federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
With divided government imminent, Democrats are using these final days to make a desperate push for priorities, including an immigration measure for young Americans who entered the country illegally and the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay men and lesbians.
It was fitting to conclude my journey to Casablanca watching Oum present songs from her upcoming album, Sweerty, which includes an immigration-themed song with Brooklyn-based Ghana rapper Blitz the Ambassador that is currently blowing up Moroccan radio.
The project would include an airport, immigration and customs operations, a high tech industrial park, banks, medical centers and educational facilities.
LONDON — A little more than two years after a far-right, anti-immigrant militant killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, Norwegian voters ousted their center-left government on Monday, paving the way for the conservative leader, Erna Solberg, to assemble a governing coalition that may include an anti-immigration party.
OSLO -- Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg — nicknamed "Iron Erna" — will become Norway's new prime minister as the leader of a center-right coalition government likely to include an anti-immigration party.
Sanger's eugenic policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods and full family planning autonomy for the able-minded, and compulsory segregation or sterilization for the profoundly retarded.
Unlike last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, the panel of witnesses for Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration included an undocumented immigrant, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
