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 The Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) has admitted that it is actively investigating
just 3,000 out of 6 million individuals over the last 20 years who have
overstayed their visas and now reside in the United States.This includes "219 illegal
overstays from Afghanistan, 681 from Iraq, 564 from Iran, 56 from Libya,
1,435 from Pakistan, 440 from Syria, and 219 from Yemen.”
This is just 0.05
percent. How many of these individuals are using our freedoms and
benefits to plan out additional ways to destroy and kill us? The numbers
are staggering.
Sincerely,
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DHS Investigating Just 0.05 Percent of 6 Million Illegal
Visa Overstays
Adam Kredo - The Washington Free Beacon
The Department of
Homeland Security is actively investigating just 3,000 of the 6 million
individuals who have overstayed their visas and now reside in the United
States illegally, according to disclosures made before Congress.
Craig Healthy, Homeland’s
assistant director for national security investigations, admitted that
there are just 3,000 active investigations, or .05 percent, into some six
million aliens who have illegally overstayed their visas in the United
States during the past 20 years.
Investigators have
additionally “exhausted” 1,626 “leads” into these individuals, Healy
disclosed under questioned by Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.), a member of
the Senate Immigration Subcommittee.
Healy’s disclosure
comes on the heels of a report by DHS revealing that more than half a
million aliens overstayed their temporary visas in the United States in
2015 alone and ore than 482,000 of those individuals are believed to
still be residing illegally in the United States, according to the report.
This includes 219
illegal overstays from Afghanistan, 681 from Iraq, 564 from Iran, 56 from
Libya, 1,435 from Pakistan, 440 from Syria, and 219 from Yemen, according
to the report. Many are still in the United States illegally.
Perdue questioned Healy
about why the department is investigating so few of these cases.
“Roughly, we have about
3,000 that are still under investigation right now,” Healy said. “1,626
leads have been what we call exhausted, meaning that we haven’t been able
to locate the individual. It comes back to us, into a continuous
monitoring status.”
This encompasses those
who have illegally overstayed their visa during the past 20 years.
“So, 3,000 [overstays]
were investigated, are under investigation right now. But those 3,000
could’ve come in any one of the years in the last 20 years, correct?”
Perdue asked.
“That is correct,
sir,” Healy said.
Perdue went on to ask
how many of these individuals who overstayed their visas were reported,
located, and removed from the country.
“I’ve seen estimates as
high as 40 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants here, came
in and overstayed a visa,” Healy responded.
Perdue expressed alarm
at Healy’s response and advocated in favor of a biometric detection
system that can more accurately track and account for those aliens
granted temporary visas.
“My question is if it’s
40 percent of whatever that top number, we have 4, 5, 6 million people
here who overstay their visa. Directionally, that’s fairly correct,”
Perdue said. “And last year, we identified and investigated 3,000? So,
you can kind of see where I’m going here. We have a monumental issue
here. Even if we were to put biometric in, and have all of the 100
percent accurate information on exit, we’ve got this huge, built-up
issue.”
“So, am I directionally
correct?” Perdue asked. “I’m not trying to draw a conclusion, but I am
trying to get information.”
“You’re correct, sir,”
Healy said.
DHS found that 527,127
aliens temporally granted U.S. business and tourist visas were found to
have stayed in the United States longer than legally permitted in 2015.
Of those who did not
leave the United States on time, around 482,781 are believed to still be
illegally residing in the United States, according to the DHS report.
The statistics were
offered as the Obama administration gears up to grant around 170,000
visas to immigrants from Muslim-majority nations in 2016.
“If Amazon and Fed Ex
can track packages from a warehouse in North Carolina to a small town in
rural Iowa, surely the federal government should be able to track people
entering and exiting our country,” said a Senate GOP aide.
“The whole purpose of a
visa is to legally document people entering and leaving our country, but
if the government cannot even produce this basic information, then visas
have basically become a one way ticket,” the aide said.
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