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Lucy Madison<\/strong> As negotiations continue in the Senate over the language for a comprehensive immigration bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward Tuesday with a measure prompted by concerns inspired by last month\u2019s Boston bombings.<\/p>\n The amendment, which passed out of committee unanimously on Tuesday, makes monitoring requirements on foreign students more stringent, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to implement the \u201creal-time transmission of\u201d student visa information to databases used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection across the country. <\/p>\n According to a Judiciary Committee spokeswoman, the legislation, proposed by the committee\u2019s top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was prompted by the fact that Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the students charged as an accomplice in the bombings, had a nullified visa. Tazhayakov had not registered for school when he returned from Kazhakstan, and his visa was consequently pulled. The border agent who allowed him to re-enter the country, however, did not have that information in his computer.<\/p>\n
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May 15, 2013<\/p>\n