“There are not enough reliable Canadian workers that will do this kind of work,” said Andrews, who has owned a fruit and vegetable farm for 27 years. “We have put advertisements in the paper for people to do weeding and picking.” more>

Hindu temples and religious groups in the United States are reeling from visa denials that have resulted in a shortage of temple priests and stalled temple construction projects. To combat this problem, Hindu groups are seeking changes to U.S. immigration rules. more>

The author laments that education, meaningful work and financial success can get immigrant minorities only so far. For some, however, whiteness will always be a prerequisite for being American. more>

A Bangladeshi family in Queens was recently fined $15,000 for illegally converting their home and sub-letting it to extended family. The Community Development Corporation (CDC), a not-for-profit that deals housing and community development needs, is holding meetings to educate South Asian tenants and landlords. more>

“Listening to 20 tenth-graders talk in fluent English would have led me to guess that each child had come from a somewhat wealthy family. I was shocked when I learned that about two-thirds of the children had come from scavenger households.” more>

“I buy my sushi from 7-11,” delivers stand-up comic Daniel Nainan, who left his job at Intel to pursue his dream. Now the Indian-Japanese-Canadian hopes to break South Asian and East Asian humor into the American mainstream. more>

The news is alarming everywhere, if you are brown or liberal or both, and live in 2003 America. Racism, hatred and exclusivism have always flourished at the fringes of North American life, simmering potently, beneath a paper-thin surface. But the current political climate has encouraged this troika to rear its head with pride. more>

Delegations of prominent New York Jewish organizations met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee last week, and spoke about the common thread of terrorism that the democracies of India, Israel and the United States face. They also discussed the blossoming of relations between India and Israel. more>

“An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book,” said Jamie Fellner, director of Human Rights Watch’s U.S. Program, after his organization released a new report listing arbitrary detentions, due process violations, and secret arrests among the human rights violations since September 11th. more>

On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Desis Rising Up and Moving, the Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants, the Prison Moratorium Project and others rallied against the detentions, calling them the “worst kind of racial profiling.” more>

The level and intensity of debate engendered in the two countries the level and intensity of the debate engendered in the two countries by India’s Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) and the America’s anti-terror legislations. more>