Editor's note 5 12 17: For unknown reasons, the DHS has taken down the page that we linked to. The link was cited by several other websites, and did exist. A damning report from the DHS inspector general explains why the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has such a difficult time in catching foreigners who overstay their visas. The problems are tied to incompetent oversight by the DHS Chief Information Officer and the dizzying number of databases that contain information on people who enter the country. The report concludes: Department of Homeland Security IT systems did not effectively support ICE visa tracking operations. ICE personnel responsible for investigating in-country visa overstays pieced together information from dozens of systems and databases, some of which were not integrated and did not electronically share information. Despite previous efforts to improve information sharing, the DHS Chief Information Officer (CIO) did not provide the...(Read Full Post)