The system is broken.
As a crisis ensues on the border with unprecedented numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally, hundreds of others are entering via visa overstays.
According to the most recent federal data, in Fiscal Year 2017, over 600,000 foreigners overstayed their visas.
A new Rasmussen poll shows that most American voters (62%) support a federal government crackdown on those who overstay their visas.
Just 21% disagree and 17% poll undecided.
According to Rasmussen, a majority of Americans (51%) say the government is "not aggressive enough" in enforcing visas and sending violators home, meanwhile 18% say the government is “too aggressive.”
Nineteen percent (19%) say the government’s enforcement on visas is “about right” and 11% say they are not sure.
Critics of the Trump administration point to visa overstays as a means to criticize the president regarding his efforts to enforce the U.S.-southern border, saying there is already a crisis at home, but the system altogether needs an overhaul, as he has himself indicated.
President Trump recently signed a memorandum ordering his secretary of state and secretary of homeland security to provide him with recommendations to reduce overstay rates within four months and to begin taking “all appropriate actions that are within the scope of their respective authorities to reduce overstay rates for all classes of nonimmigrant visas.”
The Rasmussen survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters was conducted April 30-May 1 and has a margin sampling error of three percentage points.