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Countries face new UK visa rules
South Africans visiting the United Kingdom will need a visa, under new rules issued by the Home Office. Bolivia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Venezuela also failed a test of the threat posed by their citizens in terms of security, immigration and crime.

Immigration agency's airline flies tens of thousands of deportees out of U.S.
Flying worldwide from O’Hare and 22 other airports, the so-called ICE Air planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants, including 11,500 from the Chicago area, out of the U.S. from October 2007 to October 2008‚ a 26 percent increase over the previous fiscal year and 77 percent more than in 2006.

Nigeria: Immigrations Nabs Human Traffickers, Rescues 17 Victims in Ogun
Ogun State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested four suspected human traffickers; rescuing 17 of their victims.