Jul 29, 2015 ... "We have a porous border, meaning not just the border with Mexico, but 40  percent of people in this country, illegally, are overstaying visas," he said on Fox  ... how many immigrants arrived and departed, INS concluded that in 1996, 41  percent of illegal immigrants had entered the United States legally.
Mar 7, 2017 ... The majority of immigrants settling in the U.S. without authorization are first  coming to the country legally, raising questions about the effectiveness of ... Two- thirds of those who joined the undocumented population did so by entering with a  valid visa and then overstaying their period of admission, the center ...
Sep 8, 2015 ... Why would you want to build a 1,900-mile wall between Mexico and the United  States if almost 40 percent of all immigrants come by plane and they overstay  their visas?" Ramos is far from the first person to deploy the statistic that 40  percent of unauthorized immigrants come into the country under a legal ...
Apr 7, 2013 ... Proponents of overhauling the U.S. immigration system increasingly point to the  fact that about 40% of the 11 million undocumented workers in the country aren't  low-wage workers who sneaked over the southern border illegally, but rather  foreigners who arrived legally and simply never left. Those working ...
Sep 6, 2013 ... And relying largely on a 2006 study, PolitiFact in July 2010 rated as Mostly True a  claim that 40 percent of the "undocumented workers in this country" entered the  U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa." This is obviously an iffy topic and not just  because quantifying the total number of illegal immigrants is ...
Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."