Facing criticism over how easily some of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered and moved about the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Friday a new Internet-based system will start in July to better track the 1 million foreign students in this nation. Colleges, universities and trade schools will have to collect and report information to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) under the system, initially voluntary but later mandatory, he told a news conference. "For too long our student visa system has been a slow, antiquated, paper-driven reporting system incapable of ensuring that those who enter the United States as students are in fact attending our educational institutions," Ashcroft said. The system will make the student information available centrally to the INS in a database and will allow the schools to transmit it electronically via the Internet, he said.

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