This is a fantastic idea, which is surely going to send Democrats into apoplexy
U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry
Addressing what it calls “a clear national security threat,” the Trump administration will require that some foreign visitors pay bonds of up to $15,000 to help ensure they do not overstay their visas, under a State Department trial program announced on Monday.
Foreigners seeking to enter the United States on tourist or business visas from countries with high visa overstay rates will be expected to put down no less than $5,000, the department said in a public notice. Visitors who fail to leave the United States before their visa expires will forfeit their bond; those who comply with their visa requirements will get their money back.
The notice did not specify which countries would be subject to the program, saying only that they would be determined based on visa overstay data collected and published by the Department of Homeland Security.
The move is the Trump administration’s latest in a multifront effort to crack down on illegal immigration after President Trump made the issue the centerpiece of his 2024 campaign.
They should apply this to people on school visas, as well.
Citing Department of Homeland Security data from 2023, the notice said that more than 500,000 people admitted to the United States through air or sea ports of entry most likely remained in the country past the end of their authorized stay.
Like that person hired as a police officer who was way over his visa expiration? You know, who was carrying a department issued handgun and was caught trying to buy?
It’s a great idea, but doesn’t go far enough! EVERY U.S. resident 16 and up should be dunned $5000 to $25,000 based on likelihood of committing a civil or criminal offense. If you stay clean you get your bond back, without interest.
The travel and tourism industry may balk at the visa restrictions but how else do keep America pure?
Our snarky socialist wrote:
Hey, great! But if such is based upon the “likelihood of committing a civil or criminal offense,” then the white sons and daughters of good Catholic families will have the lowest bonds set, while homosexuals and blacks the highest bonds, because they are by far the most likely to commit sexual offenses and violent criminal actions.
This policy would, if implemented, do two things:
1 – It would help pay for locating and deporting the offending ‘visitor,’ and
2 – Serve as a notification to ICE, when the bond wasn’t redeemed, that the ‘visitor’ had overstayed the visa.
We ought to already have a system which notifies ICE when a visa has expired, which ought to be cross-checked with passports shown upon departure — and yes, you have to show and have scanned your passport upon departing the United States by any airline or ship — but somehow that never seems to happen.
Supposedly overstayed legitimate visas have contributed at least as much to illegal immigration as border crossers.
They can fix anything.
Yeah that’s the ticket.