Thread: U.S. can't trace foreign visitors on expired visas

U.S. can't trace foreign visitors on expired visas

Accused Dallas bomb plotter puts focus on lack of ‘exit system’ for tourists

By James C. McKinely Jr. and Julia Preston
updated 39 minutes ago

DALLAS - Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.

Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi’s checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas.

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It’s a good thing Janet Napolitano is forbidding the detention of illegal aliens for all but the most serious felonies. It’s not as though two illegal aliens who overstayed their visas, lets call them Mohammed Atta & Ziad Jarrah, were released after traffic stops by police and shortly thereafter piloted 2 of the 4 planes used in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Oh wait, that is exactly what happened.

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