Where Do Alien Fraudulent Card-Users Fit into the Big Picture?
There are four basic ways of becoming an illegal alien in the US, and perhaps the government is focusing too much attention on the least of these flows. The four routes are: 1) You can sneak across a border without being noticed, or, in government words “enter without inspection.” You are then an EWI. 2) You can enter legally at a port of entry, using your own name, on a valid visa, and subsequently decide to violate its terms, typically by staying longer than you should, or working when you should not. That makes you a visa abuser. 3) You can enter through a port of entry, carrying a legally issued document that was issued to you, knowing that you plan to misuse it (such as working while holding a border-crossing card). Or you can make a false claim to U.S. citizenship. Either of those activities makes you a fraudulent entrant. (Sometimes it is difficult to sort out who is in group two as opposed to who is in group three.) 4) Or you can get through a port of entry with a counterfeit d
