Showing posts with label Examiner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Examiner. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Over 500,000 overstay visas in 2015 - That's 'half a million' or a 'few' depending on where you get your news

Examiner: DHS: 500,000 people overstayed their U.S. visas in 2015
    A new government report released Tuesday night found more than half a million foreign nationals who received temporary visas to enter the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program or B Visa in 2015 overstayed their permits. --A total of 527,127 people visiting the U.S. through both programs failed to leave and have remained in the country without legal status or lawful presence.

New York Times: Few Foreign Visitors to U.S. Overstay Visa, Federal Report Says
    WASHINGTON — A little more than 1 percent of the nearly 45 million foreign visitors to the United States overstayed their work or tourist visas last year, according to a long-awaited report by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Will there be a Supreme Court vs. Obama smackdown?

EXAMINER.COM, 7/9/2010 by Anthony G. Martin (Hat tip: Stella Gunether via email) - According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable.

Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much if not all of Obama's major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government.

Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to publicly flog the Court over its ruling that the First Amendment grants the right to various organizations to run political ads during the time of an election. Read more at the Examiner...

(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic). Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court. Read More......