Our view on visa overstays: 1 in 3 illegal residents arrives legally and just stays
Five years later, on 9/11, terrorists tragically confirmed that program's failure by flying hijacked airplanes into buildings. Two of the 19 hijackers had overstayed visas. In the years that followed, the newly created Department of Homeland Security initiated what it called the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program (or US-VISIT for short) with much fanfare.http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/09/debate-on-visa-overstays-our-view-1-in-3-illegal-residents-arrives-legally-and-just-stays.html