One of President Trump’s first lines of business has been to stop illegal immigration, and that also means that work has progressed when it comes to his campaign promise of building a wall. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is now saying that the wall isn’t going to stop or curb illegal immigration because he says that many illegal immigrants living in Florida are the result of overstaying visas.
Rubio is a supporter of the plan to build a wall, but he also adds that “In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa — the wall isn’t going to address that.”As the Miami Herald reports, the Department of Homeland Security estimated in 2016 that 416,500 people stayed in the country in 2016 out of 45 million United States arrivals by air and sea whose business and tourist visas expired in 2015.
A former INS demographer, Robert Warren, said that illegal immigrants in Florida that had overstayed their visas were about 61%, which translates to 430,000 of 710,000 illegal immigrants.
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“What it comes down to is Florida has a higher mix of people who don’t come from Mexico or Central America than the country as a whole,” Warren added.
