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January 31, 2003
Senate Votes to Defund Registration An appropriations bill approved by the US Senate late on Jan. 23 includes an amendment that would cut off funding for the Justice Department's "special registration" program, which requires male visitors from 25 countries to register with the INS to get photographed, fingerprinted and interviewed. The amendment restored funding for a separate congressionally mandated program that by 2005 is designed to track all visitors when they enter and leave the US. But it barred the use of any of that money for the controversial registration program. The amendment, which is not included in the House version of the bill, also requires that Attorney General John Ashcroft provide Congress with an assessment on the effectiveness of the registration program, along with information on its creation and operation. Republicans say they will fight to remove the amendment in the conference committee where a compromise version of the bill will be worked out. The group South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT) urges people to contact their senators and representatives to push for the amendment to be kept in the final bill. More information is at www.saalt.org[SAALT Action Alert 1/29/03; Washington Post 1/25/03; Washington Times 1/29/03] Immigration News Briefs (INB), a weekly English-language summary of US immigration news, is forwarded out to the email list of the Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI). If wish to subscribe directly to INB, or to the CHRI email list (which includes INB and local NYC area events, average 4-5 messages a week), write to nicajg@panix.com (indicate "CHRI list" or "INB only"). |