mrtravel wrote:
The goal is for US Taxpayers not to bear the cost of administration for
the Visa program. The State Department doesn't give passports away,
does it?

When you leave your country, it doesn't do your country any economic good
because you will be spending your money abroad. When a foreigner comes to the
USA, it generates lots of economic activity in the USA. Giving the visas
should be seen as a wise investment.

Some countries spend a lot of money to attract tourists. The USA is spending
lots to repell tourists.

Should they charge $100 to all those mexicans illegally crossing the borders
into the USA ? Are mexicans allowed to visit the USA ? Or are they such a high
risk of wanting to stay in USA that the USA refuses all but a few requests to
enter the USA ?

The US also has higher standards for entry than most countries.

You can have whatever standards you want for immigration. But for tourists you
are stupid to block so many simple tourists.

How can you claim to have "higher standards" when your country doesn't even
control its exit points to be able to know who is in or out ? If you want to
know which tourist has overstayed their visit, you should have official exit
control points at airports and land border crossings. Many countries do this.
The current system is so flawed that you have, since 9-11 illegally arrested
and detained a great number of legitimate visitors simply because some piece
of paper had not been processed years ago leading officials to conclude the
tourist had stayed in the USA all this time).

If people from these countries didn't abuse the system, then there would
be no need to make it more difficult for people from these countries to
visit.


Perhaps the USA should start checking ships before blocking legitimate
visitors who seek an official visa. The illegal immigrants from china tend to
enter through illegal means (containers, boats, forged papers etc).

If the person has a legitimate visa, passport and airline ticket, then they
are not very likely to drop all their papers in the toilet on the plane and
then claim political asylum when they reach the USA. If you checked in with
all the right papers, and then you claim asylum and have no papers on you,
then the immigration forlks will get the passenger manifest and know what your
real identity is.

Ironic that you would be blocking legitimate requests at the consolate, but
the illegal immigrants bypass the consulate and simply get forged papers that
allow them to board aircraft and then claim asylum when they reach the USA.