Foreign Visitors Become Illegal Aliens

The World Enquirer

Foreign Visitors Become Illegal Aliens

After all that we have been through, the government has not maximized its power to protect our nation. Is it because of the mental disorder that continues to rule the United States? There may be some left wing groups that would say that it is not proper to keep tabs on illegal aliens. This mental disorder might even advocate that if a foreign visitor decides to stay here we should allow such people to merely become Americans unless perhaps they should ever be stopped for a traffic offense. When will we wake up to the real world????

By James C. McKinely Jr. and Julia Preston

DALLAS - Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress. the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

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.

Smadi was arrested on charges he plotted to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper. Smadi entered the United States legally, but then overstayed his visa.

Anthony Campos The World Enquirer * anthony@wallstreetinquirer.com