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Article: Six Million `Overstayers' Overtask State Department.(United States Bureau of Consular Affairs management of illegal immigrants)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 11, 2001
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Most foreigners who arrive with temporary. visas and refuse to leave meld peacefully -- if secretly and illegally-- into American society. But a large number also stay to steal, deal drugs or run rackets. A few, such as the Palestinians who in 1998 plotted to blow up the New York City subway, come to this country to terrorize.
The agency charged with curtailing illegal immigration and enforcing U.S. immigration laws overseas is the State Department's 1,995-employee Bureau of Consular Affairs, also known as the Consular Corps. The corps assists U.S. citizens traveling or living abroad, but its biggest, most routine job is processing applications from those seeking ...