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They will be allowed into the boarding area. If there is a hit because the boarder is on some nofly list because of some danger. the passenger can be denied boarding or removed from the plane before it takes off. and their baggage can be removed from the plane. Importantly. the United States would then have a unified. automatically produced list of those who have departed on time and those who have overstayed their visas. Colleagues. I would note we are having a huge surge in the number of people who come to this country on a visa and dont go home. It now amounts to over 40 percent of the people illegally in the country who came on a visa. promising to go home at a certain time. yet who are not going home. We had a Democratic debate a few weeks ago when former Secretary Clinton said: Well. if you are found in the United States unlawfully you should only be deported if you have been indicted or charged with a violent felony. How did this become the law? You are not allowed to stay in the country. You cant stay in the country if you overstay your visa. That is the law. You are deportable right there. whether you are a good person or not. and even if you never committed a traffic offense. Now we have leadership in this country so detached from law. so detached from the will of the American people. they are saying you can come in and stay for years after overstaying your visa and only be deported if you commit a violent felony. This has to be brought to a conclusion. The American people want a lawful system of immigrationare they wrong to ask for that?-one that serves the interests of the American people. one that is worthy of a nation that validates the rule of law. or do we just give in? Do we capitulate to lawlessness. and anybody who comes and can get into our countryeven for a month. presumablyand who commits a $50.000 bank fraud is not going to be deported because it is not a violent crime. even though the law says otherwise? Let me just note that for a host of reasons the system should be based on the fingerprint system where we maintain our extensive database. There are eye systems that will read your eyes. we have systems that will read your face. but. colleagues. do not be led into that.