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August 14th, 2007 |
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The City of MedicineOne in four people in the city of Durham are employed in some sort of health related field as over 300 major health and medical companies make their homes here. In 1910, the city saw the invention of BC Headache Powder, which may have been the town’s first step toward being christened The City of Medicine and becoming synonymous with health.
Durham is home to six major hospitals including Duke University Hospital Medical Center and the city also has an impressive doctor-to-population ratio that is four times higher than the national average.
Community
Durham offers neighborhoods from the most elite like Hope Valley and Treyburn to the simply charming and historic areas of Trinity Park and Forest Hills.
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There are also planned neighborhoods nestled in Durham such as Woodlake and Woodcroft as well as a host of golf course communities like Willowhaven. The residents of Durham maintain a strong sense of community pride and the city boasts an unusually low crime rate for a town of its size. Its residents also pride themselves on being a tolerant city where its people are involved and have a voice in community issues.
Arts and Entertainment
The city of Durham hosts more than 40 annual events and festivals, most of which are either nationally or regionally recognized for their significant appeal to both visitors and residents alike. (more…)
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June 14th, 2007 |
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An archaic rule outlining citizenship requirements for commercial fishing vessel crews has both fishermen and Coast Guard officials scratching their heads.
Confusion over the interpretation of the so-called 75/25 rule — part of the 1920 Jones Act — has made some green card holders concerned that they might be violating federal law if they continue to crew on fishing vessels.
Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin Benson clarified yesterday the rule does not limit the number of green card holders who can crew on a fishing vessel. Instead, it requires that no more than 25 percent of unlicensed crew members may be “non-resident aliens holding H-2B visas,” Lt. Cmdr. Benson said. |
He noted that captains of fishing vessels can only be U.S. citizens, not green card holders.
H-2B visas are granted to temporary non-agricultural workers with sponsoring employers. They are used in such industries as landscaping, seasonal construction, fisheries, retail and other industries, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (more…)
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May 22nd, 2007 |
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US immigration is a process to travel from other nations as an immigrant or non-immigrant to the U.S. A person who desires to travel to the U.S should require visa and follow certain immigration rules and regulations.
Getting an immigration visa is very complicated .It is constantly changing. An immigration lawyer will be able to help with (immigration and naturalization) issues such as obtaining a U.S. work visa or other type of visas like Visitor visas B1, B2 for business visitors, Student visa,L1-Intracompany transferee visas, E1-Treaty trader, E2-Treaty investor, Family visa include K and V (fiancée visa and spousal visa) and green card issues. |
A US immigration attorney or immigration lawyer deals with issues concerning foreign nationals who enter the U.S either temporarily or permanently. Their line of work involves everything associated with the legal rights, duties, and obligations of foreigners in the United States.
Depending upon the purpose, there are many types of U.S. visas. Mainly visas are divided into two types Non-immigrant visas and Immigrant visas. Non-immigrant visas like: B1 Visa- It is mainly for temporary visitor for business. (more…)
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April 26th, 2007 |
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Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America! Over 12.7 percent of Americans reported they were victims of Identity Theft in the last five years! The misuse of existing credit card accounts has increased to over 71 percent in the last two years. Over all, Identity Theft has increased over 41 percent in the same period.
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Identity Theft is a massive crime and it is virtually without risk. Unbelievably, only 25 percent of Identity Theft victims report this crime to the police. (more…)
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April 26th, 2007 |
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Until a few years ago, the money that immigrants sent back home every month was only their business. But remittances around the world now total more than $126 billion, according to the World Bank. So it’s become an issue for economists, governments and politicians.
Pedro Amaya came to Virginia from El Salvador eight years ago. Like thousands of Hispanics in the U.S., Pedro and his four brothers work in construction.. |
He lives with his wife and baby, and every month he sends money home to his parents in El Salvador. ‘Sometimes $300 per month, sometimes $200, they have another small income, but it is not enough for living. The economy in our country is not doing well.’
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April 26th, 2007 |
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TLALCHAPA, Mexico - Gerardo Luviano is looking for somebody to rent his Social Security number.
Mr. Luviano, 39, obtained legal residence in the United States almost 20 years ago. But these days, back in Mexico, teaching beekeeping at the local high school in this hot, dusty town in the southwestern part of the country, Mr. Luviano is not using his Social Security number. So he is looking for an illegal immigrant in the United States to use it for him - providing a little cash along the way. |
‘I’ve almost managed to contact somebody to lend my number to,’ Mr. Luviano said. ‘My brother in California has a friend who has crops and has people that need one.’ (more…)
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April 25th, 2007 |
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EAGLE PASS, TX - A pilot program that jails all illegal immigrants crossing into this Texas border town from Mexico has led to a dramatic fall in numbers attempting the journey, the U.S. Office of Border Patrol said on Friday. A program known as Operation Streamline II, instituted on December 12, is aimed mostly at non-Mexican illegal immigrants who were arrested and released because Border Patrol agents did not have sufficient space to jail them.
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The blanket crackdown is also being applied to undocumented Mexicans who were previously subject to criminal background checks and released back over the Rio Grande without charges. (more…)
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April 24th, 2007 |
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Most Americans are very upset with the illegal immigration issues in our country. Yet everyone knows that many jobs need to be filled that Americans are not filling. Today we have such low unemployment that businesses struggle to get all the work done.
Many industries are in crisis due to this problem such as the restaurant, landscaping, car washes, construction and agriculture trades. But they are only a subset of the problems with labor. |
One major problem in the future with truck washing companies is going to be that when the Department of Homeland Security tightens down on illegal immigration, we will see labor supply issues, as most of the tuck washing companies are hiring Hispanic Labor and often they are illegal aliens. (more…)
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April 24th, 2007 |
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NEW YORK, NY - Every month, José Valencia sends between $300 and $400 to his sisters and other relatives in Ecuador from the Delgado Travel office in Queens, N.Y. ‘We never cease to do that,’ says Mr. Valencia, who heads the New York Association for New Americans, an immigrant advocacy group. ‘We are always going to send money home.’ Delgado Travel, a family-owned business with 35 locations in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, serves between 8,000 and 11,000 customers a day.
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But Valencia is considering switching to Citibank. ‘They are the biggest bank in the whole world,’ he says. ‘With a lot of these small companies, you don’t know whether the money is going to get there. (more…)
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April 24th, 2007 |
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Each day Cesar Negrete drives to work, it’s with a nagging fear that comes from not having a driver’s license. Negrete doesn’t have one because he’s an illegal alien.
But that doesn’t stop him from going to his maintenance and landscaping jobs. For him, it’s more about feeding his wife and two children than following the letter of the law. |
‘Even though I don’t have papers to work here, I’m taking a job that is needed. If I’m paying taxes and I need to drive to work, they need to give me the opportunity to do it legally,’ said Negrete, who came from Mexico three years ago. (more…)
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