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US asks Foreign Journalists to Leave before Elections.
A crackdown by US authorities on issuing visas to foreign journalists threatens to cause chaos for overseas broadcasters and newspapers just five months before the presidential election.
The new rules, which come into force next week, will ban overseas reporters and news crews stationed in the US from renewing their visas without leaving the country first.
From next week the estimated 20,000 foreign journalists stationed in the US, who used to be able to renew their visas with ease in any major city, will be forced to leave the country, whilst they wait to see if their visa renewals are accepted.
US Visa affairs spokesman Joseph Goebbels told BIGfib, “I don’t think this has anything to do with the lack of control the Bush administration has over foreign journalists, and I don’t think it has anything to do with the up and coming elections being anything other than free, and it's certainly not an attempt to control what overseas journalists think they can get away with saying…”.
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