Originally Posted by
GUWonder
A lot of these visas were issued improperly? The above sounds like Orwellian newspeak when the improperly issued US visas are probably a very small minority of issued US visas at that.
And the vast majority of US visa holders at US ports of entry don't get denied US entry on a daily basis.
So what? In 2015 we issued more than 11,400,000 visas (we haven't published the 2016 numbers yet, but it is not less). If even a very small minority, say one quarter of one percent, are issued improperly (and because issuance requires discretion and judgment by consular officials then there most certainly are improperly issued visas) than that "very small minority" is still a very large number, indeed.
That most visa holders are not denied entry does not mean that many visa holders are not denied entry.
What number constitutes "many"? Doesn't matter - just one each was needed for the 2002 shooting at LAX and the 2015 San Bernadino shooting and two for the Boston Marathon bombing. Of course, I readily acknowledge that most terrorist incidents in the US are committed by US citizens, generally US-born citizens. But many of the most "spectacular" or successful attacks in the US have been perpetrated by persons from overseas.