Did Arnold violate immigration laws when he came to the US?

[barbaraann]

Abuse of actor's 1960s visa suggested
SCHWARZENEGGER AIDES DEFEND RECORD
By Dion Nissenbaum
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
Denis Poroy - Associated Press

SACRAMENTO - Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has denounced illegal immigration in his bid to become California's next governor, but the Austrian native may have stretched the bounds of United States law to secure his own ticket to America in the 1960s.

As a 21-year-old bodybuilder, Schwarzenegger came to the United States in 1968 on a B-1 visa, which allows visiting athletes to compete and train, but bars them from drawing a salary from an American company.

But in his 1977 autobiography, Schwarzenegger said he reached a deal with a legendary figure in the bodybuilding industry ``to pay me a weekly salary in exchange for my information and being able to use photographs of me in his magazine.
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http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/6762303.htm

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. Very, very interesting...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16949-2003Sep2.html

Immigrant Arnold Wants More Secure Calif. Border

Reuters
Tuesday, September 2, 2003; 9:48 PM


By Dan Whitcomb

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Schwarzenegger, who says it took him 15 years to become a legal U.S. citizen, tackled the politically combustive issue of illegal immigration in response to attacks by Democratic recall rival Cruz Bustamante.

Bustamante had accused the "Terminator" star of being anti-immigrant for supporting Proposition 187, the voter-approved measure that sought to deny public services to people in the country illegally.

"What he doesn't understand is that people like myself waited 15 years to get citizenship," Schwarzenegger, who came to the United States from Austria in the 1960s, said. "There are people who have been waiting 20 years. I find it unfair to all of a sudden push the whole thing with undocumented immigrants and say they should immediately get citizenship."

The film star told the John and Ken show on Los Angeles radio station KFI-AM 640 in a telephone interview that he wanted stricter controls and beefed-up patrols on the U.S. border with Mexico. He said he was also against legislation, currently being debated in Sacramento, that would give California drivers licenses to illegal immigrants -- a bill that Davis has said he would sign and Bustamante supports.

[barbaraann]

2. Yeah. He "doesn't recall" if he got paid, his boss "doesn't recall"

if he got paid, and the US govt will only release ONE out of 83 pages of records relating to his immigration status.

THIS is why he is afraid to debate! It's not because he is uninformed on this issues.