Not so simple. They can already see people on overstay but don't act on it. AI (unless they put it in robocops) isn't going to go out and start arresting people. Police needs to do that. And I believe after that 29 months that they need to update system to store all records, they will. Link tens of thousands of cameras with facial recognition and start flagging and tracking overstayers and sending police after them. And police would be far more interested if they profited from it - so remove the 20k maximum fine limit, raise daily overstay fine, and give 30% to police station that captures them. I'm not saying this will completely eliminate overstays, especially for people who are trapped (overstayed but has no funds to leave or nowhere to leave to), but it will make those who consider overstay merely a small inconvenience to reconsider. Even more so if penalty for overstay included mandatory jail sentence (not IDC at airport but real jail) before deportation. For those who can't leave right now, give them 2 years (when your new system isn't ready anyway) to leave on old rules or some kind of amnesty, so when the new system kicks off, you have a clean start: overstayer = criminal. Cruel? Probably. But, each country's job is to control immigration. And that's something that many countries are tightening up with rising nationalism, a common side effects of economies going down the toilet.
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