Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump are telling Republican voters they will end automatic U.S. citizenship for children born here to parents illegally in the country. But that promise — and others — can’t be unilaterally met.
, the United States grants thousands of visas for foreign students, tourists and workers. Some foreigners overstay their visa briefly; others overstay for years.
There is no precise number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have overstayed their visas, but there are some estimates. In 2022, about 850,000 foreigners, or 4% of the total number of people who were supposed to leave as their visa expired in fiscal year 2022, stayed, according to aRobert Warren, a senior visiting fellow at the Center for Migration Studies, said data suggests that about 40% of all immigrants living in the U.S. illegally overstayed their visas.
The Constitution prevents U.S. government agents from randomly knocking on doors to ask about immigration status. The money and staffing needed to track down everyone who overstayed a visa would also take resources away from tracking down criminals, which would be a waste, Bier said. "In other words," Warren said,"a mass deportation program would likely be illegal and a blunder on a colossal scale."
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