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INS hustles to save itself
2002-03-27
  • The first major and sweeping policy changes since Sept. 11 will hit the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the next couple weeks as the embattled INS commissioner attempts to come out from under criticism that his organization is in massive disarray.

    INS Commissioner James Ziglar is expected to unveil changes that include:

    • shortening the length of visitors' visas from six months to one;

    • implementing an Internet-based system to track foreign students;

    • requiring schools to tell the INS about student attendance and dropouts;

    • requiring foreign students to declare their intentions to attend U.S. schools before they reach the United States, rather than arriving and then seeking status changes;

    • prohibiting foreign students from beginning classes until they are granted visas; and

    • developing a system to monitor all who enter and exit the United States.
    Seems like the bottom of the list should be at the top of the list. It also seems like INS should be broken into pieces, with the State Department handling the visas and a police-powered intel service tracking all foreigners.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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