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Trump's Unfair Crackdown On Visa Overstays by GoodFaith: 8:29pm On Apr 24, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/opinions/trump-immigration-overstay-restrictions-zakaria/index.html

rst, they came for the asylees and the refugees. Then they came for the children at the southern border. And now they are coming for the visa overstays. In a memorandum issued on April 22, President Donald Trump ordered the Department of State to work with governments with overstay rates of more than 10%, in an effort to dramatically reduce those numbers. Though Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been tasked with reporting back to the President in four months with recommendations, the memorandum indicates that one solution could be limiting or even suspending visas for people from countries with high overstay rates.
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Rafia Zakaria
But action directed at overstays has been a long time coming. In nearly every debate centered around Trump's border wall, lawmakers from both sides have pointed to visa overstays as the "real" problem. Again and again, it has been noted that close to 45% of those present in the country illegally enter the country legally and then overstay their visas. There is some truth to this. According to the last figures published by the Department of Homeland Security in 2017, there were 701,900 overstays on non-immigrant visas. While this seems like a large number, it should be considered in light of the fact that it amounts to only 1.33% of all travelers to the country.
The planned Trump crackdown, however, does not target all overstays, nor does it punish all countries with high rates of overstays equally. The sleight of hand lies in the language that the administration is using to construct its case. The presidential memorandum states: "twenty countries have overstay rates of more than 10 percent, some with rates as high as 20, 30 or 40 percent." In labeling offending countries based on the percentage of overstays -- rather than the total number of overstays -- the Trump administration has created a mechanism via which it can punish travelers from largely poor African countries (South Sudan, Chad, Djibouti, Liberia and Somalia, to name a few), instead of countries with the highest number of offenders (Canada).

Stephen Miller is making America hostile to immigrants
Stephen Miller is making America hostile to immigrants
For perspective, in 2017, Chad had 149 people overstay their B1/B2 business visas -- out of 611 expected departures -- for a rate of 24.39%. Meanwhile, Canada, in contrast, had 96,911 people overstay their B1/B2 visa. But because that was based on a total of 8,748,750 expected departures, it only amounted to 1.11%. The disparity means that a handful of overstays from Chad could preclude all applicants from a country from traveling to the United States, while thousands of overstaying Canadians might not be punished at all.
Another problematic punishment alluded to in the memorandum concerns the use of "admission bonds," which requires the handing over of collateral (such as a large sum of money) that would only be returned if the person departs the US during the legal limit. As with the calculation of overstays, this seemingly innocuous directive would have a disparate impact on travelers from the low-income countries, who would find themselves unable to meet the steep financial requirements of posting such "admission bonds." In many ways, the admissions bond system appears to be much like the bail bond system in US criminal law, except for the small detail that travelers have not been accused of a crime and are simply wanting to visit America.
Re: Trump's Unfair Crackdown On Visa Overstays by iammo(m): 8:53pm On Apr 24, 2019
Many of this countries cant afford to have illegal immigrants work in their countries. This sometimes isnt wickedness, Japan has Debt to GDP of 200% , America and UK also has as high as 60% to 70%. Their only hope of paying back this huge debt is through income tax and other tax. Undocumented immigrants dont pay taxes, and most time send huge percent of their earnings to their countries.

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Re: Trump's Unfair Crackdown On Visa Overstays by iammo(m): 8:56pm On Apr 24, 2019
Many of this countries cant afford to have illegal immigrants work in their countries. This sometimes isnt wickedness, Japan has Debt to GDP of 200% , America and UK also has as high as 60% to 70% while Nigeria debts barely stand at 19% Their only hope of paying back this huge debt is through income tax and other tax. Undocumented immigrants dont pay taxes, and most time send huge percent of their earnings to their countries.
Re: Trump's Unfair Crackdown On Visa Overstays by Amuocha: 8:59pm On Apr 24, 2019
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