The Trump administration is considering suspending or limiting entry of nationals from countries with high rates of visa overstays as it seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration….

In the next four-months, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Department of Homeland Security will be required to present plans on how to prevent people from overstaying their business and tourist visas, said OANN.

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President Trump signed a memo on Monday giving the State and Homeland Security departments 120 days to come up with measures to tackle the problem according to the Washington Examiner.

“We have laws that need to be followed to keep Americans safe and to protect the integrity of a system where, right now, there are millions of people who are waiting in line to come to America to seek the American Dream,” Trump said….

The White House said the latest figures showed 415,000 individuals were suspected to have remained in the U.S. after overstaying their nonimmigrant visas during fiscal 2018.

Officials will target nations that have overstay rates greater than 10%. Those include Afghanistan, Angola, Bhutan, Burundi, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Georgia, Laos, Liberia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen, according to the most recent Department of Homeland Security data….

(Excerpted from Rob Crilly article in The Washington Examiner )