You are so correct.
If you'd met the guys at Mitre, working for DHS on this problem, you'd know that they're too dumb to even begin to think about how to solve the problem.
It also says a lot that during the interview, I gave this jerk some novel ideas about "data mining" plus problem solutions (database related) and he didn't get it.
IF they had offered me a position, I would have turned it down. I won't work for a certified jerk.
So, there's no hope at the DC end of this solution, trust me. Not In Congress; Not in the contractors working for DHS with the "hopes" of solving the Visa overstay problem. Yuk.
Thanks about your experience with Mitre.
BTW- When I posted "Half of our illegal alien population is visa overstayers" I wasn't making up this number. This has been cited by many who are responsible critics of our immigration policies. Florida is infested with Colombian and other Latino wise guy visa overstayers
We have to clamp down on the Mexico border but find another strategy for dealing with overstayers
A harder look at visa overstayers
From year 2002 NEW YORK - Let's call her Marissa. She has wavy hair in a bob and dark eyes that are quick to smile. A Palestinian from Israel fluent in four languages, she earned a graduate degree in Moscow.
She's also an illegal immigrant. Marisa - and almost half of the estimated 9 million illegal aliens in this country - has overstayed her visa. She tried to find an employer to sponsor her so she could earn a green card, but time ran out. "No one wants to be illegal," she says. "We want to work hard. We want to live happily. That's why I'm here."
It's estimated that each year more than 100,000 legal visitors decide to stay. The majority are like Marissa. In their desire for a better life, they are taking advantage of what's become the easiest, albeit illegal way, of grasping the American dream.
"The INS has always been so overwhelmed that visa overstayers never received much attention," says Nestor Rodriguez, an immigration expert at the University of Houston. "Now, post-Sept. 11, there are new and present issues of national security. The game has changed."
Over the past 30 years, the practice of visa overstaying has grown into the method of choice for millions of migrants from all over the world. And the US Congress and Immigration and Naturalization Service have actually made it fairly easy to do so: Once a foreigner is in this country, the INS has no effective way to track where they are or whether they leave when they are supposed to.
And while Marissa doesn't like to be illegal, she's also not particularly worried about getting caught. Experts say she's not alone. "We have no real idea of how many visa overstayers there are," says Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington. "We certainly don't know who they are or where they are."
----SNIP----