Visa overstay

In June 2004, House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wisconsin) released a General Accounting Office (GAO) report which found that "the number of foreign visitors who overstay their visas exceeds 2.3 million and that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) estimates of visa overstays is probably low. The GAO study also document[ed] that DHS interior enforcement to identify and deport people overstaying their visas is virtually non-existent." 

Documents

 * "Visa Overstays: Can We Bar the Terrorist Door?" Statement of Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies (www.cis.org), Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, May 11, 2006.

Related SourceWatch Resources

 * Border Research and Technology Center
 * Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
 * Homeland defense
 * homeland detention
 * Homeland security
 * illegal alien
 * Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
 * immigration reform
 * Minuteman Project: "Armed Rednecks at the Border"
 * qualified alien
 * REAL ID Act of 2005
 * Social Security
 * Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
 * U.S. National Guard Troops along the U.S.-Mexico border
 * US-VISIT