Senate Republican aims to treat visa overstayers like illegal entrants in response to Colorado terror attack

FIRST ON FOX — A Senate Republican wants to clasp radical who overstay their visas to the aforesaid modular arsenic illegal immigrants successful the aftermath of the calamity successful Boulder, Colo.

Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is acceptable to present authorities connected Tuesday that would reclassify the enactment of overstaying a visa arsenic "illegal entry," efficaciously treating those who enactment excessively agelong the aforesaid arsenic idiosyncratic that illegally enters the U.S.

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Sen. Jim Banks’ measure comes connected the heels of the play onslaught successful Colorado wherever Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian nationalist whose visa expired successful March, allegedly targeted a pro-Israel protestation . (Getty/Boulder PD)

Banks’ measure comes connected the heels of the play onslaught successful Colorado wherever Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian nationalist whose visa expired successful March, allegedly targeted a pro-Israel protestation meant to advocator for the merchandise of hostages inactive held by the panic enactment Hamas successful the Gaza Strip.

In a one-pager of the measure obtained by Fox News Digital, Banks explicitly pointed to Soliman, on with the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers, arsenic examples of radical who overstayed their visas.

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Trump slammed the Boulder, Colorado, panic attack, allegedly carried retired by Egyptian nationalist Mohammed Soliman, arsenic a merchandise of Biden's unfastened borderline policies. (AP/ Getty )

Soliman, successful particular, came to the U.S. 2 years agone nether a enactment visa from the Biden-led Department of Homeland Security.

"The Boulder terrorist and 9/11 hijackers didn’t sneak in, they overstayed visas," Banks said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "That’s conscionable arsenic superior and conscionable arsenic dangerous. My measure cracks down connected visa overstays with transgression penalties to halt threats earlier they happen."

The latest information from the DHS from fiscal 2023 recovered that implicit 565,000 radical overstayed their visas.

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Then-Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during Politico's yearly AI and Tech Summit connected Sept. 17, 2024, successful Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Along with reclassifying those that overstay their visas, his authorities would marque visa overstays a misdemeanor transgression discourtesy punishable by a maximum of six months down bars for first-time offenders, which would crank up to a maximum of 2 years for consequent offenses.

It would besides rise civilian penalties to betwixt $500 and $1000, with penalties doubling for each consequent offense. Currently, visa overstay penalties commencement astatine $50.

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Soliman connected Sunday allegedly attacked the "Run for Their Lives" group, which was engaged successful a peaceful protestation advocating for the merchandise of hostages held by Hamas. He allegedly utilized Molotov cocktails connected the group, injuring 8 radical whose ages ranged from 52 to 88-years-old. One of the victims was a subsister of the Holocaust.

Since then, Soliman has been charged with a national hate crime, attempted murder, battle and different charges pursuing what the FBI dubbed a "targeted panic attack." Combined, the charges against Soliman transportation a full of 624 years.