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2019-12-09 Home Front: WoT
Manhunt for missing Saudis, hundreds of thousands of visa overstays
In which the editorialist riffs off the events caused by Saudi 2nd Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani at the Pensacola Naval Base a few days ago. Only new information, and the riff, posted here.
[LawEnforcementToday] Defense Secretary Mark Esper spoke to the press on Friday after the horrific display, saying that he wanted "to make sure we’re doing our due diligence to understand what are our procedures," concerning the training programs that lead to this outcome.

According to sources at the air station, the shooting had taken place inside of a classroom where students of the program spend the first initial months of their training there. Based upon that scope, it can be deduced that the shooter was likely a recent addition to the program.

It’s worth pointing out what appears to be a weakened vetting program for those coming into America.

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On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked 4 planes and orchestrated one of the darkest days in our nation’s history. Four of those bully boyz came to the US on visas and then stayed after the expiration.

There was no accurate method for tracking overstays or their whereabouts. Nearly two decades after bully boyz exploited the U.S. government’s inadequate, more than 700,000 foreigners with expired visas remain on the lam in the country.

The latest government figures, as reported by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), show 702,000 overstays in 2017.

It has been almost 18 years since that horrific event and the government still hasn’t found a way to accurately and adequately track visa over stayers. According to a Judicial Watch report, they obtained Department of Homeland Security (DHS) figures in 2015 showing that 527,127 foreigners with expired visas remained in the country.

Thousands of those are from nations with links to terrorism. Per that report, the breakdown is: 1,435 from Pakistain, 681 from Iraq, 564 from Iran, 440 from Syria, 219 from Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, 219 from Afghanistan and 56 from Libya.

Following the 9/11 attack, Congress created the U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology system to track the entry and exit of foreign nationals by using electronically scanned fingerprints and photographs. Five years and $1 billion later, it still has serious flaws.

The GAO has since published a report that said nearly half of the nation’s immigrants colonists who are no longer here legally, entered the U.S. legally and overstayed their visas undetected.

As stated by Judicial Watch:

In the years that followed the government did little to improve what has developed into a dire national security disaster.

In 2011 yet another federal auditconfirmed that the U.S. had lost track of millions who overstayed their visas and two years later the crisis intensified when DHS lost track of 266 dangerous foreigners with expired visas.

The government determined that they "could pose a national security or public safety concerns," according to the director of Homeland Security and Justice at the GAO.

You read the correctly. The Department of Homeland Security lost track of 266 dangerous immigrants colonists with expired visas.

The latest GAO report shows that about 52.7 million nonimmigrant admissions to the U.S. through air or sea ports of entry were supposed to depart in fiscal year 2017.

Part of the problem is that DHS relies on third-party departure data. This includes commercial carrier passenger manifests. In other words, the government is depending on airlines and cruise ships to help it enforce visa violations.

Now, to make matters worse, we have presidential candidates like Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
who plan to decriminalize improper border crossings and visa overstays.

She’s introduced her plan to decriminalize immigration, welcome more refugees and focus enforcement on only security threats. Her open borders approach is in stark contrast to the stance taken by the Trump administration.

Warren, a Massachusetts senator, said the Trump administration’s harsh treatment of migrants colonists, to include separating undocumented children and parents at the border, is based on a law known as Section 1325.

It allows for criminal penalties for illegally entering the U.S. or entering legally and overstaying a visa. Warren wants to repeal the provision and indicated that she would use executive power to reduce its enforcement as president.

So, to translate: Warren wants to allow anyone who wants to walk into this nation to do so with no consequences. She wants to give free reign to anyone and everyone. Given that she is in favor of free healthcare for those not here legally, her plan could get extremely expensive.

This plan came in conjunction with President Trump’s announcement that he will take executive action on the 2020 U.S. Census to include a citizenship question in the population count.

There are also credible indications that mass arrests of thousands of undocumented people are expected to begin Sunday, assuming sanctuary proponents don’t tip them all off first.
Let’s keep an eye out for that, though it may have been mere writerly overexcitement.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-09 00:23|| || Front Page|| [25 views ]  Top
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#1 There was no accurate method for tracking overstays or their whereabouts.

Keeping the doors shut and ensuring window screens are in place and fully functional really is key. I haven't had a wasp or carpenter bee in the house for many years

At one time there were programs in place to vet, track, and ...get acquainted with foreign military students coming to the US. Of course if your current emphasis is upending elected officials, the foreign military student program probably isn't getting the attention it deserves.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-09 03:59||   2019-12-09 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Had the same problem with Iranians when the embassy was overrun back in Carter's time. File under - Lessons Not Learned. But hey, they're Muzzies, so the judiciary has bent over backwards to make this all possible.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-09 05:19||   2019-12-09 05:19|| Front Page Top

#3 >There was no accurate method for tracking overstays or their whereabouts.

Automatic Bail posting would work. When you arrive you deposit bail, when you leave on time you get it back.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-09 07:54||   2019-12-09 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 no accurate method for tracking overstays or their whereabouts.

Facial recognition + big data processing have progressed enormously in the last decade and will progress even more rapidly over the next 3-4 years.

This really isn't that hard of a problem to solve.
Assuming, of course, that the Uniparty actually wants it solved.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-09 08:06||   2019-12-09 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 How about an implanted tracking device? That would turn into a bomb if you went out of your assigned region, or didn't report in time.
I know I've seen a lot of science fiction movies that show how to do this.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-09 08:17||   2019-12-09 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Be a day late paying your credit card bill. They'll find you...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 08:52||   2019-12-09 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course they can be found. Fer chrissake, you can't exist today without generating thousands of digital footprints that are hovered up into millions of data tables whose contents are shared across thousands of data exchanges.

Verizon and AT&T alone have enough info identify, locate, instantiate the phones of every single one of these characters with 100% accuracy.

There is no real barrier here. It's the will that's lacking.

Our elites-- our shitty tech oligarchs as well as our political Shitshow ringmasters -- simply don't want us to find and deport people who've overstayed their visas.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-09 09:00||   2019-12-09 09:00|| Front Page Top

#8 *hoovered up
Posted by Lex 2019-12-09 09:01||   2019-12-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#9 There was no accurate method for tracking overstays or their whereabouts.

select PERSON_ID, PERSON_LOC from VISA_DATE_TABLE where SYSDATE-VISA_DATE.gt. 6MO_LIMIT
Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-09 09:18||   2019-12-09 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the theory that DHS has been using is that, if an overstay is not breaking the law then they are probably doing something useful and it makes no sense to use resources to track them down and deport them.

Thousands of overstays work in assisted living, in landscaping and lawn care, in hospitality, in auto repair. Although the companies that hire them could probably survive if they were not employed it would be a big adjustment (wages would go up, prices would go up)
Posted by lord garth 2019-12-09 09:34||   2019-12-09 09:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Since the Saudi's are not cooperating how about a new policy of holding these fellows for a month of interrogation before kicking them out FOREVER and including Saudi Arabia on the banned list of the super-extra takes almost a decade of background checks level of scrutiny before they get a visa.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-09 10:15||   2019-12-09 10:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't be silly - the Dems need the votes!
Posted by Bobby 2019-12-09 10:41||   2019-12-09 10:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Put a bounty on the head of every overstay. Dead or alive.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-12-09 12:24||   2019-12-09 12:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Congress creates problems like this. They are not in business to solve problems. Congress is part of the problem. Do not look to them for solutions. They are not in that business.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-12-09 17:06||   2019-12-09 17:06|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Okay, Congress isn't likely to change, but reading the above I dreamed a quick little dream of... not a future... an alternative present in which legislation might conceivably pass requiring those sentences, with a word modified here and there, to be carved on the Capitol. Made my minute.
Posted by Crusoger Gurly-Brown7734 2019-12-09 20:12||   2019-12-09 20:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Let's be honest. A $1,000 a head bounty would solve the problem.

Simple, done.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-12-09 21:03||   2019-12-09 21:03|| Front Page Top

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