Vacationer Arrested For Overstaying Visa 30 minutes

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Apparently, now you are arrested if you are a law abiding vacationer going to the border police to try and find a legal way to exit the country, upon your visa expiring. However, if you cross the border illegally, you get food, board, shelter, and eventual citizenship/legal status).

Doesn't help that he is white I'm sure.

Strange times we live in folks.

Foreign Vacationer Arrested For Staying in U.S For an Extra Half Hour | The Free Thought Project

 

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Visa waiver reform bill passes in the House of Representatives...

House overwhelmingly passes visa waiver reform bill
Tuesday 8th December, 2015 | WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing new restrictions on a visa waiver program that allows travelers from 38 countries into the United States for up to 90 days without a visa. The bill, by Michigan Rep. Candice Miller, was approved on a 407 to 19 vote.

House Resolution 158 now heads to the Senate where measures addressing the visa waiver program have been introduced. All four members of the Nevada House delegation Republicans Cresent Hardy, Joe Heck and Mark Amodei and Democrat Dina Titus voted for the bill. The measure would increase information sharing between the United States and the 38 countries whose passport holders are allowed to visit the country without getting a visa, while also attempting to weed out travelers who have visited certain countries where they may have been radicalized.

It would give the secretary of Homeland Security the discretion to suspend or eliminate a country from the program if that nation fails to continually share counter-terrorism and foreign-traveler information with the United States. Four of the 19 "no" votes came from Michigan's five Democrats. "The 9/11 Commission said that, for terrorists, travel documents are as important as weapons, and I couldn't agree more," Miller, R-Harrison Township, said on the House floor. "We simply cannot give people from other countries special access to our country if we don't have all of the information that we absolutely need to ensure they aren't a threat to our national security." Democrat Dina Titus, while expressing support for the measure during the floor debate, also addressed concerns it triggered by citing the economic benefits the US and cities such as Las Vegas have received from the visa waiver program.

In 2014, the congresswoman said, more than 20 million visitors used the program to come to the US, generating $190 billion in revenue and supporting 1 million jobs. "I believe H.R. 158 strikes the right balance between security and accommodation," Titus said. "I also caution against carrying xenophobia too far." Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., the bill's original sponsor, said key provisions of the measure would beef up requirements for intelligence sharing by participating nations by giving the secretary of Homeland Security the authority to suspend or terminate a foreign country's participation if concerns are triggered about intelligence sharing. Anyone who has visited Syria, Iraq, Iran or Sudan will automatically be disqualified from the program and will have to undergo additional screening before entering the US, Miller said.

Opponents expressed concern that the measure discriminates by country of origin instead of behavior and could lead to retaliatory measures against American tourists by foreign nations. There are key differences between the House's bill and a measure from Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), which has not yet been scheduled for a vote, and may have to resolved before that happens. Both the House and Senate bills would require countries participating in the program to issue passports with embedded chips containing biometric data, report information about stolen passports to Interpol and share information about known or suspected terrorists with the United States.

House overwhelmingly passes visa waiver reform bill

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Visa Application Asks: ‘Do You Seek to Engage in Terrorist Activities While in the United States?’
December 9, 2015 | The application form that San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik would have used to apply for her visa to enter the United States asks such questions as, “Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?”

“Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization,” asks another question, to which the Pakistani citizen would have been required to check a “yes” or “no” box. “Have you ever or do you intend to provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or terrorist organizations?” asks a third, along with similar questions relating to espionage, human trafficking, money laundering, prostitution and other offenses.

According to the State Department Malik, who with her U.S.-born husband Syed Farook killed 14 people in last Tuesday’s attack at a social services center in San Bernardino, entered the U.S. in July 2014 on a K-1 fiancé(e) visa. President Obama said in his Oval Office address on Sunday night that he has ordered a review into the visa program which had allowed Malik to enter the U.S. (Obama mistakenly referred to “the visa waiver program,” but the White House corrected the transcript, striking through the word “waiver.” The visa waiver program applies to 38 specified countries – most of them in Europe, plus Australia, New Zealand, Chile, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Brunei and Singapore.)

State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry wants the review to be done “as aggressively and openly and transparently as possible.” “We take this very, very seriously,” he said. “Nothing is more important to Secretary Kerry than the safety and security of the American people and making sure that if there are improvements and changes we need to make in this or any other program in which people are entering this country on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, if there’s anything that we need to do to improve that, we’re going to do that.”

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Visa waiver reform bill passes in the House of Representatives...

House overwhelmingly passes visa waiver reform bill
Tuesday 8th December, 2015 | WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing new restrictions on a visa waiver program that allows travelers from 38 countries into the United States for up to 90 days without a visa. The bill, by Michigan Rep. Candice Miller, was approved on a 407 to 19 vote.

House Resolution 158 now heads to the Senate where measures addressing the visa waiver program have been introduced. All four members of the Nevada House delegation Republicans Cresent Hardy, Joe Heck and Mark Amodei and Democrat Dina Titus voted for the bill. The measure would increase information sharing between the United States and the 38 countries whose passport holders are allowed to visit the country without getting a visa, while also attempting to weed out travelers who have visited certain countries where they may have been radicalized.

It would give the secretary of Homeland Security the discretion to suspend or eliminate a country from the program if that nation fails to continually share counter-terrorism and foreign-traveler information with the United States. Four of the 19 "no" votes came from Michigan's five Democrats. "The 9/11 Commission said that, for terrorists, travel documents are as important as weapons, and I couldn't agree more," Miller, R-Harrison Township, said on the House floor. "We simply cannot give people from other countries special access to our country if we don't have all of the information that we absolutely need to ensure they aren't a threat to our national security." Democrat Dina Titus, while expressing support for the measure during the floor debate, also addressed concerns it triggered by citing the economic benefits the US and cities such as Las Vegas have received from the visa waiver program.

In 2014, the congresswoman said, more than 20 million visitors used the program to come to the US, generating $190 billion in revenue and supporting 1 million jobs. "I believe H.R. 158 strikes the right balance between security and accommodation," Titus said. "I also caution against carrying xenophobia too far." Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., the bill's original sponsor, said key provisions of the measure would beef up requirements for intelligence sharing by participating nations by giving the secretary of Homeland Security the authority to suspend or terminate a foreign country's participation if concerns are triggered about intelligence sharing. Anyone who has visited Syria, Iraq, Iran or Sudan will automatically be disqualified from the program and will have to undergo additional screening before entering the US, Miller said.

Opponents expressed concern that the measure discriminates by country of origin instead of behavior and could lead to retaliatory measures against American tourists by foreign nations. There are key differences between the House's bill and a measure from Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), which has not yet been scheduled for a vote, and may have to resolved before that happens. Both the House and Senate bills would require countries participating in the program to issue passports with embedded chips containing biometric data, report information about stolen passports to Interpol and share information about known or suspected terrorists with the United States.

House overwhelmingly passes visa waiver reform bill

See also:

Visa Application Asks: ‘Do You Seek to Engage in Terrorist Activities While in the United States?’
December 9, 2015 | The application form that San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik would have used to apply for her visa to enter the United States asks such questions as, “Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?”

“Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization,” asks another question, to which the Pakistani citizen would have been required to check a “yes” or “no” box. “Have you ever or do you intend to provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or terrorist organizations?” asks a third, along with similar questions relating to espionage, human trafficking, money laundering, prostitution and other offenses.

According to the State Department Malik, who with her U.S.-born husband Syed Farook killed 14 people in last Tuesday’s attack at a social services center in San Bernardino, entered the U.S. in July 2014 on a K-1 fiancé(e) visa. President Obama said in his Oval Office address on Sunday night that he has ordered a review into the visa program which had allowed Malik to enter the U.S. (Obama mistakenly referred to “the visa waiver program,” but the White House corrected the transcript, striking through the word “waiver.” The visa waiver program applies to 38 specified countries – most of them in Europe, plus Australia, New Zealand, Chile, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Brunei and Singapore.)

State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry wants the review to be done “as aggressively and openly and transparently as possible.” “We take this very, very seriously,” he said. “Nothing is more important to Secretary Kerry than the safety and security of the American people and making sure that if there are improvements and changes we need to make in this or any other program in which people are entering this country on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, if there’s anything that we need to do to improve that, we’re going to do that.”

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