OPINION:
The immigration issue may be delicate, but it is highly unfair that the government is not doing much about people who got visas and came here as visitors but decided on their own to simply stay (“Visa overstays swell ranks of illegals as 500,000 broke law in 2015,” Web, Jan. 19). By ignoring the behavior perpetuated by these expired-visa holders, we are encouraging people to break the law. We are also sending the wrong message to future visa applicants: Once you are here in the United States, you can stay as long as you want and nothing will happen to you.
I was once an illegal immigrant in this country. But I went through a rigorous process to become a legal resident alien, and later on, a U.S. citizen. It is only fair that we apply the law to all of us, not only to one sector of immigrants that come to the country.
GLADYS A. REYES
Arlington
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