Each year visitors with legal travel visas dont return to their country of origin. On tuesday Homeland Security officials discussed this at a house Homeland Security hearing. This is an hour 1 2. Will come to order. The subcommittees meeting today to study visa over stays and their impact on National Security. Conversations about the best way to secure the Southern Land border have been the principal focus for the last months. Today i want to transition to an equally important but often over looked aspect of our border and National Security. Visa over stays. Yesterday dhs released the official 2016 over stay numbers and this year they expanded the number of categories to include students and other nonimmigrant visa holders. I want to commend them for a more accurate picture. They calculated we have nearly 740,000 people over stay their visas at some point in fiscal year 2016. Even using the more generous numbers who eventually leave, we had 630,000 over stays at the end of last fiscal
Live from noon to 3 00 p. M. Eastern sunday june 4th. The House Homeland Security subcommittee on Border Security held a hearing about people who stay in the u. S. Longer than their visas allow. The Homeland Security department testified. Will come to order. The subcommittee meeting today to exam visa oversays and their impact on National Security. Conversations about the best way to secure the Southern Land border have been the focus of media, congress and the administration for the last months. Today i want to transition to an equally important by overlooked part of our Border Security, visa overstays. Dhs released the 2016 overstay numbers and this year they expanded the number of categories to include students and other nonimmigrant visa holders. I want to commend dcs but the numbers are stark. Cpb calculated that we had nearly 740,000 people overstay their visas at some point in fiscal year 2016. Even using cpbs more generous numbers that account for some of those overstays who ev
Live from noon to 3 00 p. M. Eastern sunday june 4th. The House Homeland Security subcommittee on Border Security held a hearing about people who stay in the u. S. Longer than their visas allow. The Homeland Security department testified. Will come to order. The subcommittee meeting today to exam visa oversays and their impact on National Security. Conversations about the best way to secure the Southern Land border have been the focus of media, congress and the administration for the last months. Today i want to transition to an equally important by overlooked part of our Border Security, visa overstays. Dhs released the 2016 overstay numbers and this year they expanded the number of categories to include students and other nonimmigrant visa holders. I want to commend dcs but the numbers are stark. Cpb calculated that we had nearly 740,000 people overstay their visas at some point in fiscal year 2016. Even using cpbs more generous numbers that account for some of those overstays who ev
The subcommittee to order. And thank all of our witnesses for being with us today. Were eager to hear your contribution to the subject of our concerns, which is visa overstays. Most of the time when we talk about the flaws of our immigration system, we talk about Border Security as being the paramount concern and, for me, it is, obviously coming from texas with a 1200mile common border and notwithstanding the great work being done by Border Patrol, it still remains a vulnerability and we are working hard to come up with some proposals that will help address that. But the one vulnerability that seems to be overlooked is visa overstays, people who enter our country legally and then who overstay their visa and simply melt into the Great American landscape. And as i think about it, while i understand the desire of people coming from other countries, perhaps, to emigrate to the United States because of economic or security conditions, it it is almost the moral offensive to me that people co
The subcommittee to order. And thank all of our witnesses for being with us today. Were eager to hear your contribution to the subject of our concerns, which is visa overstays. Most of the time when we talk about the flaws of our immigration system, we talk about Border Security as being the paramount concern and, for me, it is, obviously coming from texas with a 1200mile common border and notwithstanding the great work being done by Border Patrol, it still remains a vulnerability and we are working hard to come up with some proposals that will help address that. But the one vulnerability that seems to be overlooked is visa overstays, people who enter our country legally and then who overstay their visa and simply melt into the Great American landscape. And as i think about it, while i understand the desire of people coming from other countries, perhaps, to emigrate to the United States because of economic or security conditions, it it is almost the moral offensive to me that people co