By Kathryn Watson

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform members are threatening a subpoena to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials who refuse to divulge a 2013 report on visa overstays by illegal aliens.

“If the department remains unwilling to produce the 2013 report voluntarily, the committee will issue a subpoena to obtain it,” Republican Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Reps. Mark Meadows and Ron DeSantis wrote to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson in a letter Monday.

More than 500,000 foreigners overstayed their visas in fiscal year 2015, according to DHS.

DHS’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Screening Coordination Kelli Ann Burriesci baffled the committee in an early December 2015 hearing when she couldn’t answer how many Syrian refugees are in the U.S. or how many foreigners in the U.S. have overstayed their visas, despite the existence of the 2013 report.

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Since December, DHS has missed a “series” of deadlines to produce it, the letter said.

“The information in that report—which Ms. Burriesci was unable to describe and the department has, to date, been unwilling to provide—is important to the committee’s ongoing review of how the federal government tracks overstays and those who violate the terms of their visas,” the committee members wrote.

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