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Great news: Homeland Security can’t find 6,000 foreign nationals in US
Hotair ^ | 09/02/2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 09/02/2014 9:30:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind


Earlier, I noted that the UK at least had begun planning to deal with its hundreds of citizens who went to fight for ISIS while the US and other similarly-situated Western countries have mostly wrung their hands over the issue. The US has a potentially bigger issue, though, in dealing with foreign nationals studying here legally. ABC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security can’t find more than 6,000 people living here on student visas — which sounds awfully familiar:

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The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and essentially vanished — exploiting a security gap that was supposed to be fixed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

“My greatest concern is that they could be doing anything,” said Peter Edge, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who oversees investigations into visa violators. “Some of them could be here to do us harm.”

Homeland Security officials disclosed the breadth of the student visa problem in response to ABC News questions submitted as part of an investigation into persistent complaints about the nation’s entry program for students.

ABC News found that immigration officials have struggled to keep track of the rapidly increasing numbers of foreign students coming to the U.S. — now in excess of one million each year. The immigration agency’s own figures show that 58,000 students overstayed their visas in the past year. Of those, 6,000 were referred to agents for follow-up because they were determined to be of heightened concern.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; foreignnationals; homelandsecurity; illegals; immigration
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1 posted on 09/02/2014 9:30:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Homeland Seurity isn’t looking for them.


2 posted on 09/02/2014 9:31:59 AM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Those damned Amish!


3 posted on 09/02/2014 9:32:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Jeh Johnson deleting files again? Make that 5,999.. One accounted for in the WH.


4 posted on 09/02/2014 9:33:18 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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RE: Homeland Seurity isn’t looking for them.

I think you mis-spelled the word : It’s Homeland IN-security


5 posted on 09/02/2014 9:33:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is much worse than that. They can’t find 15 MILLION illegal aliens.


6 posted on 09/02/2014 9:34:11 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

DHS is too damn busy watching Americans who don’t worship Obama to be concerned with *real* potential terrorists.

When all of this Stasi like spying on Americans and complete neglect of our borders and vanishing foreign nationals finishes playing out, the eruption of violence will be very ugly.


7 posted on 09/02/2014 9:34:59 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: SeekAndFind

All part of the plan. How else can the government squeeze harder. They will wait for something bad to happen. The people will beg for the government to do something. They then squeeze harder on the law abiding while ignoring the real issue. It’s a never ending cycle.


8 posted on 09/02/2014 9:35:07 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: SeekAndFind

Is there ANYONE in the fedgov with any competence at all?


9 posted on 09/02/2014 9:35:36 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is time to stop Foreign Students from certain nations from getting Student Visa’s!!!


10 posted on 09/02/2014 9:36:47 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: SeekAndFind

Not to worry.

They can find grandmothers to frisk in your local airport.


11 posted on 09/02/2014 9:37:41 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

No problem. Most of them are just engineering students from the Middle East. Geeks are no concern.


12 posted on 09/02/2014 9:38:15 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: The turd that won't flush.)
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[ It is much worse than that. They can’t find 15 MILLION illegal aliens. ]

They are living in the shadows you know....

Last night around sunset I had to turn on the house lights and several illegals scamped out of the shadows around my house....


13 posted on 09/02/2014 9:40:40 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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[It is time to stop Foreign Students from certain nations from getting Student Visa’s!!! ]

Barry pretended to be an indonesian student to get a sweetheart deal on tuition, maybe all these students are US citizens gaming the system like their role model Barry...


14 posted on 09/02/2014 9:41:56 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: SeekAndFind

ISIS is not Obama's enemy! His enemies are Republicans, Tea Party Members, Fox, and white Christian males, who believe in God and own guns!


15 posted on 09/02/2014 9:41:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If you don't Donate to Free Republic. Shame on you! Freep Loaders are scum!)
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They're too busy putting conservative Christians, gun owners, and other “domestic terrorist” types on watchlists.

In the mean time, they'll just ignore millions of illegal aliens from mexico and SA, drug cartel types, radical jihadist muslims from the ME, and leave our borders totally unprotected, and it's all solely at the behest of obama and his administrative army of unelected bureaucrats, with guns.

You know your country is doomed when the politicians and bureaucrats fear their own citizens more than they fear foreign invaders.

16 posted on 09/02/2014 9:46:44 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

they can’t find 25 million other illegal aliens either


17 posted on 09/02/2014 9:56:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d bet it’s 50x that many.

For decades, American’s have been suckered, hoodwinked, conned, mislead and lied to by their own government.

In fact, like the 911 hijackers, most of the applications were likely falsified and most by now have multiple fraudulent ID’s and on and on....


18 posted on 09/02/2014 9:58:42 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

The 9/11 terrorist all came here on some form of visa. The fact that we have not done a better job of checking on the status and whereabouts of the person who get issued any form of visa just shows you how serious .Gov is.


19 posted on 09/02/2014 10:00:27 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wanna bet they find every single one of them to sign them up for obamacare and voting.


20 posted on 09/02/2014 10:02:06 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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