Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 9 Mar 2023 22:52)
They actually don't.
Since most of them fly in legally.
Probably not true anymore, given the huge surge in crossings at the South-Western border since Biden took office:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statisticsThe latest year for which we have official statistics on visa overstayers is 2020, when there were about 680k of them vs 640k border crossings - already a far cry from the roughly 2:1 ratio between overstayers and border crossers in the pre-covid years. The talking point that "most of them" fly in legally was accurate up until 2019, but is most likely no longer true in 2021 and beyond.
For this talking point to still be true today, there would need to have been over 5 million visa overstayers or so since 2021 - hard to imagine such a huge number to go unnoticed.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 9 2023 09:50pm