ICE arrest of Karoline Leavitt’s relative reveals pervasiveness of visa overstayers

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As the Trump administration wages a full-scale crackdown on illegal immigrants residing in the United States, one population has largely gone overlooked: visa overstayers.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its federal partners have focused on arresting and deporting illegal immigrants with criminal histories, those who have failed to depart the country after being ordered to do so by a judge, and illegal immigrants who entered by way of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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