Rogers / 4 Senator Abrams

S. S. ___

A BILL
To implement a program that prevents immigrants from overstaying in the United States with their visas.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This act may be cited as the Overstayed Visa Person Removal Act of 2017.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) 40% or more of all illegal aliens come via air travel.
2) There were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2014.
3) Mexicans make up about half of all illegal immigrants (49%).
4) The government caps employment-based, permanent visas for foreign workers and their families at
140,000 per year worldwide.
5) In April 2016, the U.S. government was still processing some family-sponsored visa applications dating
to September 1992, and was still processing some employment-related visa applications from August 2004.
6) At least 480,000 people overstayed their visas last year, adding to a backlog thats reached some 5
million total.
7) Family-sponsored preferences are limited to 226,000 visas per year.
8) Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, said the Obama administration has increasingly lost sight of the
problem, deporting some 12,500 overstays in 2009, but just 6,800 in 2012 and only 2,500 last year or
less than one out of every 2,000.
9) Of the nearly 50 million business and tourist visas issued, about 1 percent or 500,000 remained
even after their permission expired in 2015.
10) In the U.S. labor force, there were 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants either working or looking for
work in 2012.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) The Overstayed Visa Person Removal Act of 2017 will ensure that immigrants in the United
States do not stay in the United States one year after the official date of the expiration of their
documentation. This applies to all immigrants of all Visa types, and also includes the elderly as well
as children. Overstayed immigrants will be forced to move out of the country, but where they go
next is completely up to them. Also, if a Visa is not renewed after one year, but the immigrant has
stayed in the country, then that immigrant will be allowed to remain in the United States, but will
require an additional fee (on top of the fee for Visa renewal), costing 50% of their monthly salary or
income.
B) U.S. Federal Marshals will be responsible for the physical removal of these overstaying
immigrants. The U.S. Federal Marshal service will be in charge of tracking, locating, removing, and
relocating all overstays and will keep close tabs on all emerging expirational immigrants at each
years end to view who has and has not either paid the fee for renewal or fled the country.
C) U.S. Federal Marshals will be given the order by their commanding officer to evict illegal
overstays from their homes regionally, beginning on the East Coast and making their way westward
to the Pacific coast. From there, these evicted overstays will be given a year to gather all of their
belongings and board passenger planes or boats, with designated destinations. Overstays will not be
treated as criminals, and therefore will not have the right to an attorney. Instead, overstays will be
treated as intruders and as threats to our homeland security, which warrants the treatment of these
illegal aliens.