New Report: Dallas Bomb Plot Case Shows the Value of Exit-Tracking
Janice Kephart, with the Center for Immigration Studies, has a new report explaining why the long-delayed exit-tracking system would have helped law enforcement in the recent arrest of Hosam Smadi, who was plotting to blow up a Dallas office building. Smadi was pulled over for a traffic violation with no driver's license or insurance weeks prior to his abortive attack; had there been an exit-tracking system in place, and had the local police had access to this overstay information, Smadi would have easily been identified as overstaying his visa and his illegal status revealed. Also see this Examiner story for more details about how criminals are able to overstay their visas.