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Feds say they will reform student visa system to get officers updated information
nbcnews.com ^ | May 3, 2013 | Pete Williams and Erin McClam

Posted on 05/03/2013 1:26:06 PM PDT by John W

Department of Homeland Security officials said Friday that they are improving the student visa system after a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev re-entered the country with an invalid visa.

The officials said the department was “reforming the student visa system” to make sure customs and border officers get almost instant updates on visa information.

Azamat Tazhayakov, a Kazakh student and friend of Tsarnaev, re-entered the United States in January with a visa that was no longer valid because he had stopped attending classes at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. That information was apparently not relayed to customs officers.

Tazhayakov, 19, was among three friends arrested earlier this week and charged with helping remove evidence from Tsarnaev’s dorm room or with lying about it to federal authorities.

Tazhayakov had attended classes with Tsarnaev.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bigmiss; bigsis; dhs; visas

1 posted on 05/03/2013 1:26:06 PM PDT by John W
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To: John W
Napolitano is a nothing. Obama makes the rules....leave the muzzies alone.

Boston thanks you Mr. Obama.

2 posted on 05/03/2013 1:42:49 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: John W

We need comprehensive immigration ENFORCEMENT.


3 posted on 05/03/2013 1:52:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
EXactly !!! We don't need more laws, we don't need reviews, we just need what is in the books to be ENforced.
Jeesh, these guys can't wait to get up in the morning and form a new committee and talk about how to fix what isn't broken, and then slap some pork in it and tell us why we need the “New and Improved” bill.
4 posted on 05/03/2013 1:58:37 PM PDT by stormryter (How much is enough.)
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To: John W

BULL.


5 posted on 05/03/2013 2:00:15 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Maybe next they can pass a new law showing them how to tie their shoes or walk and chew gum.


6 posted on 05/03/2013 2:12:05 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: John W
Feds say they will reform student visa system to get officers updated information

Getting officers updated info, who would have *thunk* of that.
Hot damn! < /S >

7 posted on 05/03/2013 2:17:16 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: John W

When did foreign nationals stop going through both a Customs and Immigration (INS) check point?? Customs checks for contraband, immigration checks passports and visas. Customs is a part of the Treasury Department, INS answers to the Department of Justice. Who checks the list of those not allowed to enter the US?

What’s going on??


8 posted on 05/03/2013 2:27:20 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: John W

Curious as to whether something like the could have been avoided with any laws we had in place before DHS plagued this country?


9 posted on 05/03/2013 2:40:04 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: John W

Another promise you can take to the bank!


10 posted on 05/03/2013 2:42:52 PM PDT by glorgau
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Closing the barn door..... The truth is the government does not have a clue who is here, whether they come legally with a visa or sneak across the border. And what is seldom talked about are the hundreds of thousands of —mainly European passport holders—visitors who come through our airports and need no visa at all. European passport holders now include millions of naturalized and native born Muslims, of the kind to volunteer to wage jihad around the world. It is no longer just Cecil and Pierre who enter our country on UK and French Passports. Ali and Mohammed now carry these visa-free passports as well. What will the Gang of Eight do about that?
11 posted on 05/03/2013 2:45:44 PM PDT by Godwin1
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12 posted on 05/03/2013 2:47:16 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: John W
The officials said the department was “reforming the student visa system” to make sure customs and border officers get almost instant updates on visa information.

Take your time, fellas. It's only like eleven+ years after 9/11/2001.

13 posted on 05/03/2013 2:49:29 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: John W

June 2012 - Obama executive order to halt deportation of anyone under age 30

July 2012 - Tamerlan returns from Russia

January 2013 - Azamat Tazhayakov re-enters from Kazakhstan


14 posted on 05/03/2013 2:56:04 PM PDT by Selene
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To: John W

Janet keeps telling us the system works.

She’s just funnin’ us.

==

[I bet she is pondering the Congressional hearings that are sure to come.]


15 posted on 05/03/2013 3:14:57 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: John W

Yada, yada, yada. How about just doing their jobs.


16 posted on 05/03/2013 4:05:08 PM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: TurboZamboni
Maybe next they can pass a new law showing them how to tie their shoes or walk and chew gum.

What is that saying, the more corrupt a country is, the more laws it has?

17 posted on 05/03/2013 4:09:33 PM PDT by Mark17 (My body is in California, but my heart is in the Philippines)
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To: John W

So if the Feral Government had properly applied the visa laws, the bombing would not have happened.

And if the Feral Governent had properly applied the welfare laws for citizens not immigrants, this would not have happened.

And if the Feral Government had listened to the multiple intellegence warnings the bombing would not have taken place.

And if the Feral Government had actualy watched those on the watch list, they would not have been able to bomb the marathon.

And if the State Government had enforced the criminal charges on the bombers like they do on citizens the bombers would not have been able to bomb because they would have been in prison or deported by the Feral Government.

And if the Federal government would have actually read the visa reports showing that the Perps were traveling back and forth between the countries that they got protection visa from so they would not be killed by being in those countries that they were commuting to, they would not have kept their visas and could not have murdered and maimed so many citizens.

So, we need to increase taxes to hire more FUBAR Government because they were doing such a fine job, we need more of the same right?


18 posted on 05/03/2013 4:42:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: John W

I thought the Democrats PROMISED to NEVER support any border enforcement until they got their Amnesty through. This is strange.

(and that is true - they are holding the southern border hostage to Amnesty and have been for years)


19 posted on 05/03/2013 5:51:23 PM PDT by BobL (Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
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