ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH EXPIRED VISAS REMEAIN TOUGH TO TRACK
More than 10 years after 9/11, illegal immigrants with long-expired visas remain tough to track. The criminal case against Amine El Khalifi, 29, only highlights how the U.S. government routinely fails to track millions of foreign visitors blatantly ignoring immigration law without consequence. Despite multiple run-ins with police in Northern Virginia where El Khalifi lived, he never came to the attention of federal law enforcement agencies until he became the target of an FBI probe following a landlord’s reporting of suspicious activity.El Khalifi, a Moroccan native who had been living illegally in the U.S. for 12 years after his tourist visa expired, was arrested wearing what he thought was an explosive-laden suicide vest to be detonated at the U.S. Capitol… Fortunately, American lives were spared because FBI undercover agents had been posing as Al Qaeda operatives to see just how far El Khalifi was willing to go with his threats against the United States.
Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) said El Khalifi “follows a long line of terrorists, including several of the 9/11 hijackers, who overstayed their visa and went on to conduct terror attacks.” Miller went on to say that roughly 40 percent of all the illegal immigrants in our country have expired visas and came in “right through the front door.”
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