Records show Schwarzenegger violated terms of immigrant visa

San Jose Mecury News / Knight Ridder ^ | 09-13-03

[hauerf]

Well, there's nothing to do but hang him, same as we do with all who bend our immigration laws.

[TheAngryClam]

No wonder Arnold's soft on illegals.

He's one of them.

[Warren_Piece]

And so it begins...

[South40]

You're hopelessly desperate, as is the liberal media.

You're in good company.

[demlosers]

Yawn... The Dirt diggers are working overtime and stretching it.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I say, go ahead and deport him, AS long as they deport the other 15 million illegals that are turning our country into MEXIMERICA!

[SauronOfMordor]

But in his 1977 autobiography, Schwarzenegger said he reached a deal with a legendary figure in the bodybuilding industry "to pay me a weekly salary in exchange for my information and being able to use photographs of me in his magazine."

That arrangement, said a half dozen immigration attorneys across the nation, appears to have violated the terms of his visa.

"It allows you to come in to conduct business, but to be gainfully employed you need a visa that allows you to be gainfully employed in the United States," said New York-based immigration attorney Steven S. Mukamal. "It would seem that Mr. Schwarzenegger violated his own status."

Arnold performed no work, so it's not a "salary". He licensed permission to use his pictures and talk about him in the mag in exchange for a license fee to be paid in weekly installments.

[Sabertooth]

As a 21-year-old bodybuilder, Schwarzenegger came to the United States in 1968 on a B-1 visa, which allows visiting athletes to compete and train, but bars them from drawing a salary from an American company.

But in his 1977 autobiography, Schwarzenegger said he reached a deal with a legendary figure in the bodybuilding industry "to pay me a weekly salary in exchange for my information and being able to use photographs of me in his magazine."

That arrangement, said a half dozen immigration attorneys across the nation, appears to have violated the terms of his visa.

Hey, he was only here to win the bodybuilding contests that Americans didn't want to win.

[Future Snake Eater]

So NOW the commies want to get involved in immigration laws and their enforcement? Their hypocrisy is absolutely astounding...

[demlosers]

Yup! No news here...gawkers move on.

[oceanview]

this is going nowhere.

celebrities have a built in immunity to this stuff in america, which is why the clintons seek celebrity status above all else, to insulate them from their moral and political corruption, which is a hell of alot worse then a earning a few hundred bucks.

[Clara Lou]

No wonder Arnold's soft on illegals. He's one of them.
In your dreams.

[Happy2BMe]

I was wondering how long it would take the dims to find this little morsel.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Republican RINO Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Samwise]

Who do you think planted the story to begin with?

[LRS]

Oh brother!

These guys are amazing!

[Common Tator]

in exchange for my information and being able to use photographs of me in his magazine

Glad to see you try to make the case that consulting (supplying information) and modeling (posing for pictures) are not really jobs.

Are models who get paid for modeling elegible for welfare? According to you they are not employed. And information for compensation.... isn't that how corporate lawyers get their money?

[Bob]

Who do you think planted the story to begin with?

His autobiographer?

[Semper]

And so it begins...

Oh yes, it has already begun. The next big revelation will probably be that Arnold picked a pimple when he was 15.