U.S. Capitol: Suicide Vest

Tourist Visa Dept: WASHINGTON - By the time the suspect in an alleged bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol was arrested in a parking lot wearing what he thought was an explosive-laden suicide vest, he had been living illegally in the United States for 12 years. His tourist visa expired the same year he arrived from his native Morocco as a teenager in 1999, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The Obama administration doesn't consider deporting people whose only offence is overstaying a visa a priority. It has focused immigration enforcement efforts on people who have committed serious crimes or are considered a threat to public or national security and fILE - In this Sept. 24, 2011 file photo, Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich. speaks on Mackinac Island, Mich. By the time the suspect in a bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol was arrested in a parking lot wearing what he thought was an explosive-laden suicide vest, he had been living illegally in the United States for 12 years. His tourist visa expired the same year he arrived from his native Morocco as a teenager in 1999. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File The criminal case against Amine El Khalifi, 29, of Alexandria, Virginia, has renewed the debate about how the U.S. government a decade after the terrorist attacks of 2001 routinely fails to track millions of foreign visitors who remain in the country longer than they are allowed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.