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Sunday, May 12, 2002

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/05/10/ins-internet.htm

INS will use Internet for tracking foreign students

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General John Ashcroft on Friday announced a system to track hundreds of thousands of foreign students, saying it will allow the United States to "gain a measure of assurance that the students who are visiting our country are who they purport to be." Ashcroft said the Internet-based system will provide rapid access to information about a student. "We do not currently have a system that efficiently verifies if a student is in fact studying at an institution," Ashcroft said....


 


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