Taped:
November 8, 2001
Los Angeles, CA
— Loopholes created by the U. S. Congress in
1996 made it possible for foreign students to disappear,
unaccounted for, throughout the United States without
prior background checks, or verification that they
ever showed up for classes. This is according to Jim
White, Legal Counsel with  UCLA’s
International Student Services who participated in
a Full Disclosure interview that was originally videotaped
on November 8, 2001, three weeks following the 9/11
Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Towers
in New York. The program is part one of two-part Full
Disclosure cable television program to be released
on the Internet for the first time on Monday, March
28, 2005.
White
also described how the over half a million Foreign Students
in the United States could vanish without any paperwork
or notification to the U. S. Immigration authorities.
He told Emmy Award winning Full Disclosure host Leslie
Dutton “sometimes I see documents come back from
the INS Central Data Base indicating their records show
a particular student at our school, and upon checking,
we find that the student never showed up. I don’t
know if it’s an oversight or intentional”.
Also,
appearing on the program is Richard Knickerbocker, Constitutional
Attorney who represented former UCLA Deputy Registrar
David Bradford whose lawsuit challenged UCLA’s
policy of certifying illegal aliens as legal residents
to qualify for “in state” tuition. Knickerbocker
predicted in the Bradford case that Foreign Students
could bring in drugs and criminals could enter the country
under the guise of student visas, and that they would
come without any intention of returning to their homelands.
Full
Disclosure interviews over the past twelve years have
documented the problems encountered in the immigration
and criminal justice system from the broad perspectives
of law enforcement, judiciary, public defenders and
criminal defense attorneys.
This
part one of the program is set to air world-wide on
the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week starting
on Monday, March 28, 2005 here at http://www.fulldisclosure.net
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UPDATE:
March 28, 2005:
Congress To Weaken Foreign Student Security?
"Those
seeking to study in science and engineering [have
faced] major delays in receiving their visas because
of security clearances," said Dale Kildee of
Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the 21st-Century
Competitiveness Subcommittee. "We have to redouble
our efforts to process [visas] more quickly. The potential
impact is huge" if students decide to study elsewhere.
The
United States should preserve its flow of talented
international students into the country while also
maintaining adequate safeguards against potential
terrorists, said subcommittee Chairman Howard (Buck)
McKeon, R-Calif. The full story can be found here
at: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0305/031705tdpm1.htm
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