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he
number of adult immigrants holding a job has grown
by more than 2 million since 2000,
according to a study
released by a group that favors stricter
immigration controls, Center for Immigration Studies.
The study also found that occupations with some
of the highest unemployment rates among U.S.-born citizens
tended
to be in job
sectors such as construction that had the largest
influx of recent immigrants.(Associated
Press)
Applications
for the 2006 lottery visa, officially known as the
Diversity Visa Lottery, will be accepted electronically
on a
State Department Web
site,
from Nov. 5 through Jan. 7. Last year
nearly 6 million applicants competed for a chance to
apply for 50,000 immigrant visas. (NY
Times) Sophia Kwok,
an immigrant from Hong Kong, was sworn in last month
as the first Asian to attain the
rank
of
chief at the New York Fire Department. Her new job
will put her in charge of Brooklyn's busiest ambulance
crews. (Daily
News)
In this November edition of The Citizen,
we take a look at immigrants and the election, Muslims
population in the city, Black and Korean get-togethers
and complaints about fines and harassment by New York
police -- articles from the Bengali, Caribbean,
Chinese, Russian and
Spanish-language
via our partner, Voices That Must Be Heard.
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