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While President Bush is sending National Guard troops to the U.S. Mexico border, while people send bricks to help build a border wall, and while cameras allow internet users to watch the Southern border alongside the Minutemen one big fact remains, that millions of undocumented immigrants didn’t climb a wall over the border to be in the United States.

The little-acknowledged reality is that nearly half the estimated 12 million undocumented foreigners in the United States entered on bona fide U.S. visas — and simply never left. Authorities call them “overstays” who have been largely overlooked in the vitriolic debate on immigration.

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