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To: LindyBill who wrote (7901)	9/14/2003 4:56:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793771

This story might have legs and damage Schwarznegger's campaign. worldnetdaily.com TOTAL RECALL Schwarzenegger violated terms of immigration visa? Candidate reportedly paid salary to write for magazines during 1st year in America Posted: September 14, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in 1983, has called for tighter controls on illegal immigration as part of his campaign to become California's next governor. But the Austrian native may have stretched the bounds of U.S. law to secure his own ticket to America in the 1960s, according to a report by the San Jose Mercury News. The B-1 visa, which Schwarzenegger used when he came to the U.S. in 1968 as a 21-year-old bodybuilder, allows visiting athletes to take part in competitions, ministers to lead evangelical tours, engineers to install computer systems and musicians to record albums, but bars them from drawing a salary from an American company. However, some immigration attorneys say an arrangement Schwarzenegger talks about in his 1977 autobiography appears to have violated the visa. The Hollywood star struck a deal to work for bodybuilding magnate Joe Weider while he had a B-1 visa so he could train at the legendary Gold's Gym in Venice, Calfornia. ''I worked out an agreement with Joe Weider to spend one year in America,'' Schwarzenegger wrote in his autobiography. ''My part of the agreement was to make available to Weider information about how I trained. He agreed to provide an apartment, a car and to pay me a weekly salary in exchange for my information and being able to use photographs of me in his magazine.'' If Weider did pay Schwarzenegger a salary to write for his magazines in 1968 and 1969, that would have been a violation of his immigration status, six immigration attorneys told the Mercury News. ''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,'' New York-based immigration attorney Steven S. Mukamal told the paper. ''It would seem that Mr. Schwarzenegger violated his own status.'' Last month in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Weider said he paid Schwarzenegger $200 a week, a generous sum in 1968 when the average weekly wage was about $114. ''I paid him right away,'' Weider said. ''How do you think he was going to live?'' Schwarzenegger spokesman Sean Walsh also told the Mercury News last month that the young bodybuilder was paid a weekly salary, but Walsh said that it was only $65 a week. Schwarzenegger told campaign aides last week that he does not recall earning a salary during his first year in America, even though he wrote about it in his autobiography and the arrangement has been reported in numerous accounts over the decades, reports the paper. Schwarzenegger declined be interviewed by the Mercury News or release immigration records that detail his employment history in the United States. The actor, who came to the United States from Austria during the late 1960s, has acknowledged voting for Proposition 187, the 1994 initiative that denied some social services to illegal immigrants but has since been mostly voided by the courts. As governor he has vowed to fight a law Davis signed earlier this month that allows illegal aliens to get driver's licenses. Schwarzenegger also was criticized last week about his membership on the advisory board of a group that supports making English the country's official language. Immigration issues have become a central part of the campaign in recent days as Bustamante, the grandson of Mexican immigrants, has tried to consolidate the state's large Hispanic population around his candidacy.

To: LindyBill who wrote (7901)	9/14/2003 10:54:18 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793771

One Wall, One Man, One Vote By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Read it. Very well done. I have no idea whether his notion of unintended consequences in which the Palestinians give up on the two state notion and opt instead for political rights within an enlarged state of Israel, which, by demographic growth, they threaten to control, whether that consequence is real or not. But it's very clear the present government has not thought about such matters and considers only force and fear as policy tools. And that consequences of that can only go from bad to terrible.