Just how many people overstayed their visas in fiscal year 2015 and where have they gone?
There’s no way to know for sure because the federal government has refused to implement visa tracking ever since Congress mandated it 20 years ago.
But according to a new report from the border patrol, 482,781 individuals who entered on tourist or business visas were still believed to be illegally present in the United States at the end of FY 2015.
The number of total visa overstays for past year is likely far more than 482,000.
The scope of the Department of Homeland Security report only covered data on B-1 (those visiting on business) and B-2 (those visiting on pleasure) visas. There are numerous categories of visas, such as F-1 visas for student visas, the multiple H and L foreign worker visas, and the J-1 exchange visas.
We’ve admitted almost one million foreign students during the last academic year alone.
The scattered data is incomplete and leaves us with no sense of how many people overstay their visas on a given year and where they reside.
Moreover, this DHS report does not cover those who entered on various visas through land ports. This means there are likely endless numbers of Latin Americans who’ve entered through our southern border check points and have disappeared into our country.
Read on and wonder what has happened to our country.
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