Border Security is only half the problem, how about Visa Overstays?

[ontheroad]

Those with J1 and HI visas are discouraged from staying beyond their temporary visa status for school or specific work-study programs. Finding new employment or protracting studies is not easy. However, one of the difficulties is no system is in place to verify whether an expired visa holder leaves the country. However, the very fact that people had a legitimate visa often results in a green-card status, and not expulsion. Of those I am familiar with, all were professionals, and were screened thoroughly before the issuance of a visa, J1, H1 and others, and their extension through a green card was also thorough, took the hiring of an attorney, and a return to one's native country for a specified period of time before the new immigrant status was authorised.

When I lived abroad, they had a mandatory 3-month check-in so that not only were immigrants cleared for potential public health issues, the check in served as a control for unregistered and undocumented immigrants. Perhaps a similar routine procedure could be investigated and put into place here in the US.

[crittersitter]

There certainly needs to be a crackdown across the board.

[Bummer]

Originally Posted by crittersitter

There certainly needs to be a crackdown across the board.

Absolutely, crittersitter . . . eliminate all incentives immediately!

[pablo-me]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

Perhaps a similar routine procedure could be investigated and put into place here in the US.

...Perhaps not, the govt. and big business likes the Moderator cut: offensive who work cheap, keep their mouth shut and lay low.
God help us and them when the labor unions get a hold of them! Everyone will end up paying and the hombres will start sticking out their pot stomachs and crying about how important they are!