Feds can't say whereabouts of those whose visas were revoked over terror threat

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Fox News
Article date: 
19 December 2015
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
enforcement
visa overstay
national security
terrorism
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The Obama administration cannot be sure of the whereabouts of thousands of foreigners in the U.S. who had their visas revoked over terror concerns and other reasons, a State Department official acknowledged Thursday. 
 
The admission, made at a House oversight hearing examining immigrant vetting in the wake of major terror attacks, drew a sharp rebuke from the committee chairman. 
 
“You don’t have a clue do you?” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Michele Thoren Bond, assistant secretary for the Bureau of Consular Affairs...
 
Bond initially said the U.S. has revoked more than 122,000 visas since 2001, including 9,500 because of the threat of terrorism. 
 
But Chaffetz quickly pried at that stat, pressing the witness about the present location of those individuals. 
 
"I don't know," she said...

 

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