1. Across Government we are introducing reform to strengthen our shared values and citizenship. The purpose of this paper is to set out how reform of a newcomer’s path to citizenship or permanent residence can contribute to this agenda. 2. We make these proposals against the backdrop of sweeping changes to our immigration system. These include changes to ensure that those who come to Britain do so in our country’s interests, and changes that will improve how we police the system and protect our borders. This paper proposes a third field of change: the journey newcomers take towards citizenship or permanent residence. 3. We propose to make these changes together with a radical simplification of our immigration laws. We plan to publish a partial draft bill for prelegislative scrutiny by the summer and will introduce a full bill to Parliament by the end of November 2008.

Several hundred unaccompanied migrant boys in the Canary Islands are being accommodated by the authorities in improvised, emergency care centers that are inadequate for their well-being and put them at risk of violence and ill-treatment. Since 2006 an unprecedented number of unaccompanied migrant children, mainly boys, have arrived in the Canaries by boat from sub-Saharan Africa and Morocco. The government of the Canary Islands opened a number of emergency centers to provide immediate care for these children. Conceived as a temporary solution, these centers have now become permanent. Children as young as 10 find themselves in facilities where they are without access to public schooling, have little opportunity for recreation, and are rarely permitted to leave. Housed in overcrowded conditions with much older children, they are at increased risk of violence by other boys as well as by staff in charge of their care. This report documents severe abuses and ill-treatment of children in two emergency centers.

En las Islas Canarias cientos de menores extranjeros no acompañados están siendo alojados por las autoridades en improvisados centros de acogida de emergencia que son inadecuados para su bienestar y que los ponen en riesgo de sufrir violencia y maltrato. Desde 2006, el número de menores extranjeros no acompañados, la mayoría chicos, que llegan a las Islas Canarias en cayuco desde África subsahariana y Marruecos ha alcanzado un nivel sin precedentes. El Gobierno de las Islas Canarias abrió una serie de centros de emergencia para amparar a estos menores de manera inmediata. Concebidos como una solución temporal, estos centros han acabado convirtiéndose en permanentes. Niños, incluso de diez años, que no son escolarizados, se encuentran en centros donde disfrutan de pocas opciones de ocio y de donde raramente se les permite salir. Albergados en condiciones de masificación con menores mucho mayores, estos niños se encuentran en peligro de ser víctimas de la violencia por parte de otros chicos como también por parte del personal a cargo. Este informe documenta serios abusos y maltrato de niños en dos centros de emergencia.

We are pleased to present the third annual Failed States Index - which has been expanded to include 177 countries. Hundreds of thousands of articles from global and regional sources were collected from May to December 2006 using Thomson Dialog. Utilizing our CAST software to do initial analysis of these voluminous documents and with a review by experts, we compiled the scores below. We encourage others to utilize the Failed States Index to develop ideas for promoting greater stability worldwide. We hope the Index will spur conversations, encourage debate, and most of all help guide strategies for sustainable security.

The report is divided into four parts plus a statistical annex. Part I contains three subsections. The first of these provides a broad overview of trends in international migration movements, including a historical overview of migration over the last half century and a look at potential movements in response to future declines in the working age population. Net migration into OECD countries has tripled since the early seventies, with movements often driven by historical events such as the fall of the Iron Curtain. Asylum seeking is at a historical low since the early nineties, while the accession of the new members of the European Union in 2004 has resulted in a substantial increase in movements within Europe. Significant labour migration into southern Europe continues, most of it from outside OECD countries. The integration of immigrants and their children continues to be an issue of concern in many countries and the labour market section two provides for the first time an overview of labour force outcomes for children of immigrants in ten OECD countries for which data were available. The final section of Part I contains an overview of recent developments in migration policies, which includes a review of changes in migration restrictions with regard to EU enlargement countries, new measures to facilitate the migration of the highly skilled and the growing importance of migration issues in international relatio.

With the exception of the probationary benefits conferred by 7 Section 601(h), the provisions of Subtitle C of Title IV, and the 8 admission of aliens under Section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii) of the Immigration 9 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)), as amended by Title 10 IV, (i) the programs established by Title IV of this Act; and (ii) the programs established by Title VI of this Act that grant legal status to any individual or adjust the current status of any individual who is unlawfully present in the United States to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, shall become effective on the date that the Secretary submits a written certification to the President and the Congress that the following border security and other measures are funded, in place, and in operation

At the beginning of the current national debate concerning immigration, The Heritage Foundation described the principles that should inform immigration policy, suggested some considerations for policymakers, and proposed several first steps in developing such a policy. These principles have guided and will continue to guide Heritage Foundation analysis of this question, and they should guide lawmakers and policymakers in evaluating particular proposals that come before them.

Democratic leaders in Congress have been negotiating with their Republican counterparts and the Bush administration to craft a proposal to address the growing problem of illegal immigration. In the previous Republican Congress,the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill in May 2006, but the effort died in the House. With Democrats now in charge of Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated his intention to schedule two weeks of debate on immigration reform in coming days. Congress and the president should seize this opportunity to fix our nation’s dysfunctional immigration system in a way that guards our security, enhances our market economy, and upholds our ideals as a nation.

Bianca Grancea's first New Year's Day in her adopted country was supposed to be a new beginning. Instead, it ended in murder. The 26-year-old Romanian had recently immigrated to Spain and was looking forward to celebrating with her husband, Ion, who had entered three weeks earlier as a tourist and had found work — illegally — as a security guard at a public skating rink.

The view of things in Europe today, as the ostrich sees them, is bright. He sees an open market of 450 million people with an amazing potential. He sees a thriving economy and the free movement of people, goods, money and services. Immigration, to the ostrich, can only be viewed as an opportunity for an aging native population. Borders are better open than closed. Islam is a faith like Christianity, and Muslims shall adapt their religion to life in Europe.

In August 2006, the EU launched the first of two projected joint border patrols at its southern border in responce to mass inflows of irregular migration from Africa.

Guillermo Martínez could see the promised land of Southern California from the cramped three-bedroom house he shared here with his mother, his wife and two small children.

Immigration is a national problem that too many local governments have mistakenly tried to fix.

Los violentos no reclaman más escuelas, más guarderías, más gimnasios, más autobuses, sino que los queman. Se ensañan así contra las instituciones y todas las mediaciones, los procedimientos, los tiempos de espera que se interponen entre ellos y los objetos que desean.

La presente Comunicación representa el punto de partida del proceso de seguimiento de la cumbre informal que los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la UE celebraron el 27 de octubre de 2005 en Hampton Court. En esta cumbre, los Jefes de Estado abogaron por aplicar un enfoque global al fenómeno de la migración.

Europe's failure to integrate a growing population of immigrants, many of them Muslims, starts desperately early: in education systems that still systematically neglect these and other disadvantaged children, trapping them in uneducated poverty and depriving them of a sense of worth and belonging.

President Vicente Fox of Mexico has said it best: the immigration bill passed last week by the House of Representatives is "shameful" -a reflection of the power of xenophobic politicians who want to fence in America, lock up illegal immigrants and send them back where they came from.

An analysis of Census Bureau data shows that the nation's foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached a new record of more than 35 million in March of 2005. The data also indicate that the first half of this decade has been the highest five-year period of immigration in American history. This Backgrounder provides a detailed picture of both numbers and the socio-economic status of immigrants.

The French political response to the continuing riots has focused most on the need for more multicultural "understanding" of, and public spending on, the disenchanted mass in the country's grim banlieues (suburbs).

With police declaring a "nearly normal" situation in France's housing projects, where does the country go from here?

The blunt exchange is contained in an 182-page official Italian police report that has not been made public, but is widely available in court circles and frames the judicial case against the two men. "The Madrid attack was my project, and those who died as martyrs were my dearest friends," Mr. Ahmed boasted in one intercepted conversation.

For the past three weeks, young first- and second-generation immigrants, mostly Arabs from North Africa, have torched cars and schools and shops in some 300 towns, forcing the government to declare a state of emergency well into next year. No, there's probably nothing quite like screaming "I told you so!" to the whole world to warm this old bruiser's heart.

Jean-Marie Le Pen has a twinkle in his right eye. (The left, replaced with glass, was lost in a fight during a political campaign 40 years ago.) And why shouldn't the populist founder of France's National Front be in good spirits?

For France, the good news is that these problems can be solved, principally be deregulating labor markets, reducing taxes, reforming the pension system and breaking the stranglehold of unions on economic life. The bad news is the entrenched cultural resistance to those solutions -not on the part of angry Muslim youth, but from the employed half of French society that refuses to relinquish their subsidized existences for the sake of the "solidarity" they profess to hold dear.

France could also help itself by dispatching troops to help battle the radical Islamists in Iraq, thereby sending a message to Muslims at home and abroad that France is on the side of those Muslims, the majority no doubt, who want to live in peace.

El objetivo de este estudio es describir y analizar la experiencia de tres comunidades de inmigrantes musulmanes en Europa: los turcos en Alemania, los argelinos en Francia y los marroquíes en España. En el libro se expone la situación actual y las tendencias dominantes de estas comunidades en lo que se refiere a la demografía, la economía, la sociedad, la política y la cultura.