Claim: About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants "came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home."
Fact-check: John Carter claim that 40 percent of nation's illegal residents came by plane and overstayed visas draws on 2006 estimate
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2013-09-06T00:00:00