Thread: Two-Thirds of New Illegal Aliens in 2015 Were Visa Overstays

Estimate: Two-Thirds of New Illegal Aliens in 2015 Were Visa Overstays

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by CAROLINE MAY 14 Jun 2016 10

Visa overstays outpaced successful illegal border entries last year, according to a new estimate from the House Homeland Security Committee’s Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee.

According to Subcommittee Chairwomen Martha McSally (R-AZ), the subcommittee estimates that in fiscal year 2015, 68 percent of new illegal immigrants in the U.S. had unlawfully overstayed their visas.

“I’m concerned there are unidentified national security and public safety risks in a population that large, which has historically been the primary means for terrorist entry to the United States,” McSally said Tuesday at a subcommittee hearing examining the national security risks posed by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas.



As McSally detailed, terrorists — including at least four of the 9/11 hijackers — have repeatedly exploited the nation’s visa system by legally entering the U.S. and simply never returning home.

“Since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing terrorists abused the hospitality of the American people to conduct attacks here at home,” she said, noting that the 9/11 Commission dubbed travel documents “as important as weapons” for terrorists.

Congress has mandated that the federal government implement a system to track the entry and exit of foreign national in the U.S. for nearly two decades and imposed an additional requirement that such a system be biometric for over a decade. While there is a system to track entries the federal government has yet to implement the exit portion.

The hearing comes on the heels of the Orlando nightclub shooting, in which a radical Islamic terrorist murdered dozens of people in a terrorist attack considered the worst on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001. The shooter in this case was not a visa overstay but the son of an Afghan immigrants born in New York.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...isa-overstays/

Cancel all Work and Student Visas. End these programs now. They aren't needed, they're not wanted. End it now. Tourist and business visitors will be checked on the day of departure and if they aren't out, APB's are put out through local law enforcement to collect them up and deport them after collecting large fines.

Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Industry Spotlight - SelectUSA

https://www.selectusa.gov/travel-tourism-and-hospitality-industry-united-states

The Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry in the United States ... expenditures by international visitors in the United States totaled $216.9 billion in 2015, ... a public-private partnership in travel and tourism doing business as “Brand USA”.

NAFSA International Student Economic Value Tool | NAFSA

www.nafsa.org/economicvalue
NAFSA: Association of International Educators

NAFSA's latest analysis finds that the 974,926 international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $30.5 billion and supported more than 373,000 jobs to the U.S. economy during the 2014-2015 academic year...

While there is a system to track entries the federal government has yet to implement the exit portion

Apparently it's another area our federal government doesn't feel is important enough to address. We must have the most lax immigration enforcement in the world.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

NAFSA International Student Economic Value Tool | NAFSA

www.nafsa.org/economicvalue
NAFSA: Association of International Educators

NAFSA's latest analysis finds that the 974,926 international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $30.5 billion and supported more than 373,000 jobs to the U.S. economy during the 2014-2015 academic year...

Almost 1 million more Americans students would have contributed far more to the US economy because they would have educations that could secure them great jobs in our country and generate over 1 million new jobs in the US economy, almost 3 x what foreign students do or someone claims they do, without increasing our population.

GOP lawmaker: Homeland Security deported 2,500 visa overstays in 2015

So they contribute $30 billion...but the TAXPAYERS are on the hook paying for the ONE TRILLION a year across the board these people cost us in crime and social services!

Illegal aliens who overstay visas almost never caught, feds admit

The report didn't detail who the visa overstays were. Were they tourists, workers, students, all of the above? The solution is simple for workers and students, don't issue them to begin with. The solution for tourists is somewhat more difficult. I would say post a huge bond and whey they don't leave on time, then send the bounty hunters after them, this will solve the problem and create a new jobs market for Americans chasing visa overstays. It wouldn't matter if tourists overstayed if they're really tourists spending money and having a good time. But if they use the tourist visa to enter to then reside and get work or commit crimes, then that's a problem.

The reason this is all happening when it didn't used to is because of immigration policy for the past 30 years. Trump is right, no one respects our country, our laws or our citizens. It's just the world taking over, running their show in our country, things have to change, and Trump is the only one who can fix this problem.