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Keeping track of people legally entering and leaving the United States is a formidable task. Nevertheless, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released figures on people who overstay their visas and other legal forms of admissions. Total overstays for 2016 stood at close to 740,000 people, of which up to 630,000 were suspected to still be in the country.
Canadians and Mexicans are the biggest groups of people with non-immigrant admissions to the United States that overstayed their lawfully authorized time period. However, the DHS only counts in arrivals and departures by sea and air as stated in its report.
Unlike all other countries, the overwhelming majority of visitors from Canada or Mexico enter the United States by land. “The collection of departure information in the land environment is more difficult than in the air and sea”, the DHS writes. While many Canadians or Mexicans could fly in ore arrive by boat they might leave the U.S. across the land border.
So, there’s always a degree of uncertainty in the data.
While Canada and Mexico are the United States’ direct neighbors the figures for the rest of the countries shown in the below chart probably are more accurate. This overview includes countries that are taking part in the so-called visa waiver program (VWP) and those who don’t. It only shows data for leisure and business visas, not for students.
The DHS admits that there is a level of uncertainty in how accurate these numbers are and calls them a snapshot. For the air and sea arrivals and departures the department relies on data that commercial and private carriers need to provide.
Also, the figures include suspected in-country and out-of-country overstays. This means that some of the people who initially overstayed might have already left.
Damned Canucks……… 🙂
We’re polite and blend in but it appears you’re building the wall on the wrong border….
blending in is ONE reason…but hey the non-violent part and generally not draining govt resources via handouts is probably another…. I dont remember the last time I heard of a Canadian committing a violent crime, but perhaps that isnt reported on.
side note…I am equal opportunity; swoop up ALL visa breakers including the neighbors to the north and ship everyone back.
We’ve been busted!
FM and RiNS- I am fond of our neighbors up north. If we had to be invaded with visa violators, please let it be the whitey from Canada.
Just to throw out the peace pipe, I look very hard for food items from Canada at the stores near my home as I always find them to be of clean, high quality.
The Canadians must be invading to take advantage of our wonderful health care system.
People visiting the USA on visas will help us police the system when the penalties for being here illegally become severe. Almost no one wants to risk a stay in a Mexican or Turkish prison. Perhaps we could hire some Mexicans and Turks to run our detention facilities and immigration courts.
WTF? I’m a Canadian who has visited the United States dozens of times and I’ve never HAD a visa. You don’t need one to cross the border. People who want to work in the USA need visas (not the notorious H-1B, which Canadians are not eligible for) but when they return to Canada they don’t have to show anything on the way out. I don’t get how this 124,000 figure is arrived at.
Apparently, the muslim countries aren’t on the list because their military age men are being deposited here without visas.