President Trump is shifting his focus towards immigrants who overstay their VISAs and the countries that they originated from.
According to The Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump will be signing a memorandum recommending severe sanctions on countries with high rates of visa overstays in the United States.
The memorandum recommends, among other measures, placing travel restrictions on citizens of the 20 countries who have higher than 10% visa overstay rates, including Chad, Yemen, Syria, Angola and others. Over 415,000 individuals were suspected of overstaying their short-term visitor visas in FY 2018, according to Department of Homeland Security data as of March 2019.
“What we’re doing here is shutting a backdoor for illegal immigration,” a senior administration official told The Daily Caller. “This is part of the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to combating illegal immigration.”
Visa overstays account for nearly half of all immigrants present in the U.S. illegally. The administration has taken several measures in the past aimed at reducing overstays, including using biometric systems at ports of entries to identify travelers and notifying visa holders that their admissions period is set to expire.
The report indicated that the administration is trying many avenues to crackdown on illegal immigration and the focus on the VISA system is just another attempt to quell illegal immigration into the United States by the Trump administration.
