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Just read this BS...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States, which has just implemented a program requiring foreign students to register when they enter the country, now wants to charge a $100 registration fee, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for border and transportation at Homeland Security, said the department is proposing a one-time $100 payment from each foreign student who registers in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS).

"The fee will generate over ($30) million that will be used for system maintenance, personnel to work with schools and for compliance efforts," Hutchinson said in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (news - web sites).

The visa registration program is part of an effort to improve records on foreign visitors, including students, after the Sept. 11, 2001 hijacked plane attacks on the United States. All 19 hijackers entered the country on valid visas -- and two on student visas -- but many had stayed beyond their expiration dates.

In a briefing with reporters after the speech, Hutchinson said the department needs the money to fund efforts that will ensure compliance with the system.

He said "thousands and thousands" of leads were being generated from the program, but the department needed to have the investigative ability to sift through that information and see what was worth pursuing.

In its first full year of operation more than 800,000 foreign students and exchange visitors registered with SEVIS.

Hutchinson said more than 200 students were refused entry when their visa information did not match up with information provided by the school they were supposed to attend.

Although Hutchinson said the department believed the students "posed a risk to America and our way of life," he said they were not necessarily terrorists but were refused entry because they were trying to come in under false pretenses.

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this is some serious BS man... y do we have to fork out the extra cost? we are already the so call CLEAN people after being scrutinised and get fucked over by the officials in the respective ambassys. if we are clean and consider to be of no treat, why the hell do we have to fork out the extra money to provide security for this foreign country? ok, from an govt point of view, this is all very convenient. if they charge it on their own citizens, ppl start to complain and lobby against. but if they charge it to foreign students like us with no political backings? we just have to take wateva shit they give to us and shut the fuck up. you call this fair? no man... this is load of BS. this kind of treatment towards foreign ppl just reminds me of the One party in australia lead by tat hanson woman. all the shit goes to foreigner, all the blame goes to them. come on man, civilisation has evolved for so many centuries oledi and yet we are still using such low tactic towards ppl. argh... isn't this disgusting?

my anger towards the establishment seems to be getting stronger and stronger. the way i see it, govt are just packed with too much assholic ppl making all tat stupid decisions tat are making the whole govt image into some kind of circus and backsliding the progress of human civilisation. you see foolish policies like the one mention above, and you see how fucked up bush went to war against iraq even though it is clear that there is no WMD and who the hell are they to act like the police of the world when even the rest of the world dun think they should do it? yeah, iraqi ppl suffering under saddam, but so are many other countries in africa and in asia under their authoritarian leaders. y dun you go attack each of these countries one by one? fuck you, all you want is oil and just coz you got the freaking muscle, you use it. good for you asshole, let's see how long you can push your weight around and force things to be done your way all the time. and not just in US govt, singaporean govt with their social democracy theory, and taiwanese govt tat does nth but fucking fatten their own wallets and do nth to the dying economy. if human beings are gonna be ruled by this kind of silly ppl, it is just an insult to our intelligence and me might as well all go back to the caves and screw the govt, since they are just parasites tat suck our blood (taxes) and make themselves fat and yet run away faster than anyone else if anything goes wrong. you think Ah Bien is going to be there at the frontline fighting those communist if one day we provoke china enough for them to nuke us or something? shit, it is the common ppl tat dun get to buy those expensive airtix tat is gonna stay and die in Taiwan. all those assholic politicians are all gonna be on their way to US and seek political asylum and fight the war from abroad. wat bullshit. to let 21 million taiwaneses' life be determined by the bunch of assholes is just too dangerous and should not be the way. i dun mind being the first one to eat bullet and get nuked for taiwan if those fucking commies are gonna attack taiwan, but i will neva die a clean death if tat happens becoz some fucking politicians with small penis problem incited the crisis in order to serve their own puny little political goals. never

posted by David at 10/23/2003 06:42:00 PM