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Bush Orders New Student Visa Rules; Details Largely Unknown

President Bush ordered a crackdown Monday on foreign student visas, the documents that gave at least one of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackers free access to this country. "We're going to start asking a lot of questions that heretofore have not been asked," Bush said at the first meeting of the Homeland Security Council, according to an Associated Press article.

Bush gave few details about what changes foreign students might expect, except to say his administration will "tighten up the visa policy" and keep an eye on students after they arrive. "We're generous with our universities. We're generous with our job opportunities," Bush said. "And never did we realize that people would take advantage of our generosity to the extent they have."

You can read the complete October 29, 2001 Associated Press article at http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011029/18/news-bush

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Posted October 30, 2001, on the NASFAA Web Site www.nasfaa.org
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