Bomb suspect issued H-1B visa in 2002

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Times Square Bomb Suspect Faced Foreclosure

By JOSH BARBANEL, ANDREW GROSSMAN And SUMATHI REDDY

Faisal Shahzad was losing his Connecticut home to foreclosure, disliked President George W. Bush, and was an almost invisible presence at an American university where he obtained two degrees.
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"In April 2002, he was granted an H1-B visa for skilled workers; he stayed in the U.S. for three years on that visa, gaining his M.B.A. It is not clear what company sponsored the visa, which is used to attract workers with a "specialty occupation," such as information technology."

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224451665380256.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

[sharp_stick]

1. Yeah so.... ?

The guy got an H1 and then obtained citizenship. Millions do it.

[Posteritatis]

3. But but but we couldn't predict something like this eight years in advance!

And nothing could possibly have happened between 2002 and now to get him that fired up! After all, terrorists are genetically terrorist and (descent into babbling, frothing xenophobia culminating in a demand for melanin-based restrictions on immigration)!

Or something.

As a slightly more serious response, this is so going to get conflated with the illegal immigration hoopla in the news and in politics for the next little while, I just know it. Ugh.

[xchrom]

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