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(AP) "We must know what our visitors are doing, and when they leave," he said before signing the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act in a Rose Garden ceremony. The bill provides for 200 new investigators and 200 inspectors for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It requires foreign visitors to carry passports and visas that are tamper-resistant, and also gives border patrol agents a pay increase. Under the legislation, the INS is required to establish a foreign-student tracking system that records where they've been accepted into school, when their student visas were issued and when they enrolled. That...

<p>The man who killed two persons at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4 gained legal residence in the United States through a limited amnesty program that has since expired but that President Bush and Democrats in Congress want to reopen.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON – The Egyptian immigrant who launched the deadly attack at LAX on the Fourth of July was able to use a since-expired provision of immigration law and remain in the United States while his green card was being processed, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said Tuesday.</p>

<p>Last week, members of Congress leapt to the defense of the words "under God." They shouted the phrase on Capitol Hill and in front of every available camera. But what about the two little words in the Pledge of Allegiance that come right before "under God"?</p>

The House of Representatives has done one of the stupidest things it could do for purely political reasons. Just before recess, it voted to grant amnesty to many of the nine-odd million illegal aliens who reside here, willfully and lawlessly. The legislation the House passed, known as Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, will let perhaps hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens pay a $1,000 fee and remain in the United States while they wait for their green card — a symbol of legalization, a ticket to U.S. citizenship, plus the right to bring a lengthy chain...

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 53(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)       H RES 365     2/3 YEA-AND-NAY     12-MAR-2002   6:58 PM       QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree       BILL TITLE: Providing for the concurrence by the House with amendments in the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 1885. YEAS NAYS PRES NV REPUBLICAN 92 123   6 DEMOCRATIC 182 13   16 INDEPENDENT 1 1     TOTALS 275 137   22 --- YEAS    275 --- Abercrombie Hall (OH) Olver Ackerman Harman Osborne Allen Hart Ose Andrews Hastings (FL) Otter Armey Hastings (WA) Owens Baca Hill Oxley Baird Hinchey Pallone...