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Visa overstays: a growing problem for law enforcement: hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on ... Congress, first session, October 16, 2003
United States. Congress. House
Paperback. Books LLC, Reference Series 2011-11-21.
ISBN 9781234873431
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OCLC Number: 54067720 Excerpt: ... 4 The estimates of how many unauthorized aliens are in the United States and how many of them are overstays are just really educated guesses. No one knows how many unauthorized aliens live in the United States or how many of them are overstays. New entry-exit information systems, such as a US VISIT, may eventu-ally provide accurate data on overstays, but it will be prospective information. It will only identify aliens who overstay after a non-immigrant admission recorded by the US VISIT system. It will not provide any information on how many overstays are already in the United States. The collection of entry-exit data will not have enforcement value, either. Comprehensive entry-exit data will make it possible for DHS to produce accurate lists of overstays on demand, but what will DHS do with these lists? The entry-exit data will not include information on the location of overstays. It will tell DHS who the overstays are, but not where they are. We cannot remove the 2.3 million overstays that are estimated to be living in the United States. We can reduce that figure to a more manageable level, however, by separating out the ones who would make substantial contributions to our country as lawful per-manent residents. We need a legalization program that would allow hard-working, law-abiding individuals to come out of the shadows and the fringes of society. Reducing the undocumented population would have many bene-fits. For instance, it would make it easier for us to identify the aliens in our midst who mean to do us harm. The wider availability of legal status for hard-working long-time residents would provide employers with a more stable workforce, improve the wages and working conditions of all workers, and curtail an underground labor market filled with smuggling, fraud, abuse, and other crimi-nal activities. We have nothing to lose by providing access to legalization for people who have established themselves as productive
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