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...country using student visas. Though some of the “students” never attended school, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was unaware of their activities. In an attempt to make it more difficult for foreign terrorists to hide in the U.S. by posing as students, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) has proposed a bill to keep closer tabs on foreigners studying in this country. Unfortunately, the provisions of the bill are both harsh and ill-focused. Should the bill pass, it would discourage many foreign students and few foreign terrorists...
Previous efforts to track the activities of foreign students have moved slowly and have had little success. The current effort, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, is expected to receive a $43 million boost from the Bush Administration, but Feinstein believes that a moratorium is also necessary to prevent terrorists from entering the U.S. before the system is ready...
Feinstein’s moratorium proposal is intended to allow the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to modernize its procedures and increase its scrutiny of student visa applicants. Feinstein would require that new visas only be granted to those undergoing much more extensive background checks, including fingerprinting...
...Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced late last week that she would introduce legislation to reform the U.S. student visa program—which currently is easily abused, she said. She noted that a number of the suspected terrorists in the Sept. 11 attacks were in the U.S. on student visas—even though they never attended the schools in which they were supposedly enrolled...
...Today, there is little scrutiny given to those who claim to be foreign students seeking to study in the United States,” Feinstein said in a press statement. “In fact, the foreign student visa program is one of the most unregulated and exploited visa categories...