U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors Who Refuse To Leave

In this article by JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON of the New York Times a huge problem locating foreign visitors who decide to remain in the country illegally is spotlighted and detailed.

For a long time Lou Barletta has been an outspoken critic of the inability to account for foreign visitors who remain past their authorized visa time. In fact most of the illegal aliens in this country did not enter the country illegally but remained here illegally.

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.


Over all, the officials said, about 40 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.

Paul Kanjorski will tell you he is against illegally immigration but his oversight on this huge problem is anemic at best.

Mr. Smadi’s case has brought renewed calls from both parties in Congress for Department of Homeland Security officials to complete a universal electronic exit monitoring system.


Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the Smadi case “points to a real need for an entry and exit system if we are serious about reducing illegal immigration.”


Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration, said he would try to steer money from the economic stimulus program to build an exit monitoring system.


Immigration analysts said that given the difficulties of enforcing the United States’ vast borders, it remains primarily up to law enforcement officials to thwart terrorism suspects who do not have records that would draw scrutiny before they enter the United States.

The article goes on to chronicle the escapades of Mr. Smadi while remaining in this country. This article leads to another post about a small town police chief who is doing one hell of a job stopping illegal aliens.

Immigration Gumballs

Are you aware that approximately 300,000 illegal aliens will be hired with the money from Obama's Stimulus Package if E-Verify is eliminated? Are you aware that Obama is backing away from the "Buy American" provisions in the bill? Are you aware that Obama is backing away from E-Verify at the behest of the United States Chamber of Commerce? Are you aware that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is against the "Buy American" provisions?

It's only two weeks into his administration and he is already reneging on campaign promises?

Paul Kanjorski You Did Vote To Give Illegal Aliens Social Security And Amnesty

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 HR 4437 was voted on by the House of Representatives on December 16, 2005 at 10:33P.M. Paul Kanjorski is running a commercial stating that Lou Barletta is lying when he states Kanjo voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits.

From the Wikipedia link above: It would allow illegal immigrants who later become legal to collect Social Security benefits based on social security credits earned while they were illegal.

From the GovTrack.us link above recording that vote:
Pennsylvania
Aye PA-11 Kanjorski, Paul [D]

Paul Kanjorski is running a commercial stating that Lou Barletta is lying when he states Kanjo voted to give illegal aliens amnesty. His statement in the only debate was recorded over at the LuLac Political Letter.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. This legislation (S. 1200) granted amnesty to roughly three million illegal immigrants for the stated purpose of solving the immigration problem and securing our border. The enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) dramatically eroded border control not only by granting citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants but by encouraging millions more to enter into the United States illegally in the hope that they too would eventually receive legal status.

Here is how Paul Kanjorski voted:
11 Kanjorski(D) Y

Paul is incapable of thinking, Paul is incapable of governing, Paul is incapable of telling the truth.