Dallas Would-Be Bomber Hosam Smadi: The Case for 287(g) and Exit Tracking

By Janice Kephart
November 2009

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Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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The case of 19-year-old Jordanian would-be terrorist Hosam Smadi points to the value of a viable, robust exit-tracking program that would verify that a foreign national has departed the United States. This was the message of a front-page New York Times story entitled, accurately enough, “U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas.â€