U.S. tells Canadian students to stay home.

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I repeat, it’s NOT a new rule, it’s just that INS has historically been extremely haphazard about enforcing the rules they already have. Especially on the Canadian border, people are routinely waved across with scarcely a glance at their documents, particularly if they are Canadian. AS I mentioned above, the student visa category has never been designed for part-time students, and the visitor visa category is incompatible with pursuing a course of study.

It’s unfortunate that it’s taken events like those the U.S. has experienced over the past few months to make the inspectors follow thier own rules, and it’s even more unfortunate that until recently there were only a couple hundred inspectors across the ENTIRE northern U.S. border.

We’ve given the inspectors a nearly impossible job, and the end result has been a big, fat mess, but one which I hope will soon have a regulatory fix and more resources thrown at it.

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Well, Johnny L.A., I promised I’d post anything new, and here it is, from the very front of the Justice Dept. Web site. Seems there was a press conference yesterday.

http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2002/060502agpreparedremarks.htm

I’d be curious to hear what y’all think about this proposition; I already have my own opinions, of course. With a project on a scale this grand, the devil is usually in the details (of the implementation, that is). I’d especially like to hear from any Dopers who have experience with the design and implementation of what I’m sure will need to be an absolutely mammoth high-tech computer system; how likely is it to be able to pull off something like this within the time and budgetary constraints that will probably be allowed?