Word: visas
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...agents works with the FBI to spot--and detain--suspects with immigration infractions. INS agents have also suddenly become sticklers for details. In January immigration officials grilled hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta at Miami International Airport after he tried to use a visitor's visa to enter the country for flight school. They waved him through after ascertaining that his proper student visa was "pending." Today, border officials want to see the proper papers--even photo IDs from U.S. citizens...
...These same reforms were brought up after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, where one perpetrator was here on an expired visa," says Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies. "We lacked the sustained political will to put these things in place." Indeed Congressmen from Texas-border districts are already carping about loss of business. Worse, the INS is losing agents at the very moment it is supposed to button down the borders, because hundreds are seeking better-paying jobs as air marshals...
...were not going to let him get a paper cut on their watch - which is why we were getting so much attention. For Bush, the pre-war purpose of the visit was a multi- country stature-building jaunt for a president who didn't have many stamps in his visa. Now, he was arriving as the head of a global anti- terror alliance, taking his show on the road for the first time since the attacks on America. On his previous foreign trips, nervous spectators wondered whether Bush would be able to pronounce the names of foreign leaders...
...your story about the requirements foreign students must meet to get a visa to study in an American college [FORTRESS AMERICA, Oct. 1]: The Association of International Educators (NAFSA) has not "reversed its position" of opposing the creation of a database of all foreign students. We said we would withdraw our opposition in the spirit of national unity. But we still believe that monitoring the less than 2% of temporary visa holders who have student visas will do nothing to counter terrorism. MARLENE M. JOHNSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO NAFSA: Association of International Educators Washington
...card would not alleviate what many people think of as a much worse problem, international visas. Visa applicants are not checked with the CIA or the FBI. We have no central global counterintelligence database. There is virtually no coordination among the INS, the FBI, the State Department, and the Customs service. This goes for border checking as well. At the moment, an estimated 500,000 people are in the U.S. with expired visas and we have no way of checking who they...