Stop the "Diversity" Visa Lottery, Gateway for Jihadists

Gatestone Institute:

• Among the heaviest users of the US Diversity Visa lottery are people in countries known to have terrorism problems. Entering the Diversity Visa program, Islamists openly felt, was their opportunity to access the US and cause destruction to the country and its people, which they viewed as their enemy.
• In this lottery, not just the winner gains access. When a foreign person wins the lottery, the US gives out visas to his or her family as well -- no matter where they were born. As a result, the number of people that come into the US thanks to the lottery program is actually much larger than 50,000 a year.
• The terrorists, who share the goal of devastating everything we value, do not care about political correctness, or what the true purpose of the lottery might be. They see only the opportunity to take advantage of a hole in our immigration security.

The US immigration system is significantly flawed; it paves the way for terrorists to enter the country. Since 9/11, no serious actions have been taken to address this fundamental problem. Mercifully, President Donald Trump announced yesterday that he wants the Diversity Visa Program terminated.



As the world now knows, on October 31, in a jihadi vehicular attack, a terrorist, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, drove a rented pickup-truck onto a crowded bicycle path in lower Manhattan. He murdered at least eight innocent people -- including students, school staff and tourists celebrating a reunion -- and wounded eleven people. He celebrated by shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is the greatest"). After police stopped his rampage by shooting and wounding him, he asked for an ISIS flag to be brought to his hospital room.



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