Congress responded to that by demanding the government implement this entryexit system when we passed the PATRIOT Act to provide greater security for America. It stated that an entryexit data system should be fully implemented for airports. seaports. land border ports of entry "with all deliberate speed and as expeditiously as practical." That was in 2001. If you remember what happened after 9111. we had a 9111 Commissionand it was a bipartisan Commissionand that Commission was charged with a serious responsibility of analyzing our immigration system. analyzing our public safety system. our intelligence system. and all kinds of problems that made us more vulnerable than we need to be. One of their recommendations was that we have a system when you come into America on a visa. you clock yourself inlike many workplaces haveand you clock yourself out when you leave the country and your time on your visa expires. Then the United States would know who would come and who had exited. Of course. we also know. if you recall back to that day. a number of the 9/11 attackers who killed 3.000 Americans came on visas lawfully. Several of them overstayed with the visas they had. So this was the response. We have the capability of doing this.
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