He thinks it makes perfect sense to track foreign visitors like packages.
WASHINGTON – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pushed back on Sunday against “ridiculous” criticism of his new proposal to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages, saying government needs private sector expertise to tackle illegal immigration.
“I don’t mean people are packages, so let’s not be ridiculous,” the Republican presidential candidate told an interviewer on Fox News Sunday who pointed out that foreigners don’t have labels on their wrists.
“This is once again a situation where the private sector laps us in the government with the use of technology,” Christie said. “We should bring in the folks from FedEx to use the technology to be able to do it. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
Christie said on Saturday that if elected president, he would use a FedEx-like system to make sure visitors who enter the United States legally on visas depart the country when their time is up. He maintains that 40 percent of illegal immigrants with visas overstay their visits.
The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
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