Visa overstays outpaced illegal border crossings in 2017: DHS

Published August 7, 2018 6:38pm ET



More people overstayed their visas in 2017 than crossed into the United States illegally that year, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.

DHS said almost 702,000 people who entered the U.S. legally last year didn’t leave the country in time, and were deemed to be in the U.S. illegally. That’s just a bit more than 1 percent of the 52.7 million people who came as students, or for business or personal reasons last year.

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