The suspected foreign national terrorist behind the New York City attack that has left at least eight individuals dead came to the United States years ago through the Diversity Visa Lottery, a program that President Trump and pro-American immigration reformers have demanded an end to.
According to ABC New York, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov — the man who allegedly mowed down pedestrians in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City — entered the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbekistan under the Diversity Visa Lottery before obtaining a Green Card.
The Diversity Visa Lottery gives out 50,000 visas every year to foreign nationals from a multitude of countries, including those with known terrorist problems – such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Yemen, and Uzbekistan.
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Trump, though, along with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), has been calling for an end to the Diversity Visa Lottery program since August. Under the RAISE Act, introduced in February and endorsed by Trump in August, the Diversity Visa Lottery would be eliminated altogether.
The Trump administration took eliminating the Diversity Visa Lottery even more seriously earlier this month when they introduced the president’s immigration priorities, which like the RAISE Act called for the elimination of the program.
In an interview with Breitbart News, Cotton said the Diversity Visa Lottery does not serve the national interest, as it arbitrarily rewards random foreign nationals with visas to come to the U.S.
“The diversity lottery serves no discernible humanitarian or economic interest,” Cotton explained to Breitbart News. “It is a policy that has far outlived its usefulness and it really doesn’t even serve diversity since Europe is one of the primary uses of it. Even in past efforts at amnesty-first comprehensive immigration reform like we saw in 2013 and 2007, most people agree we should eliminate the diversity lottery. I think it’s a policy that has far outlived its usefulness if it ever had any utility and it’s time to eliminate the diversity lottery.”
In 2011, just a year after the New York City foreign terror suspect, Saipov, entered the U.S. from Uzbekistan through the Diversity Visa Lottery, Center for Immigration Studies National Security Policy Director Janice Kephart testified before Congress about the security risks associated with the visa program.
“The Diversity Visa Program is an unfortunate blind spot in our immigration system that has outlived whatever purpose it might have had,” Kephart explained in her testimony in 2011. “The applicants for these 50,000 ‘visa lottery’ immigration slots require few skills. Neither their qualifications nor identity can be properly vetted. The program does not know, really, who these applicants are or their true purpose in coming to the United States. The program is a national security vulnerability and has been used by terrorists and organized criminals to not only enter the United States but to bring others in as well.”
“According to unofficial statements from the State Department, the program is rife with fraud in part because application standards are so low,” Kephart continued. “The program claims to have strict eligibility requirements, but only calls for a high school education or its equivalent or two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least two years of training or experience.”
“In most of the countries eligible for a diversity visa, neither education nor work experience can be verified, let alone identity,” Kephart stated. “Consular officers in U.S. embassies abroad thus spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to determine if people are who they say they are and actually qualify for the program. Checking watch lists based on names or prior U.S. immigration histories thus often has little bearing on making a solid determination of identity, qualifications, or legitimate national security concerns.”
Democrats, the Republican establishment, the mainstream media, and the big business lobby have slammed the RAISE Act and Trump’s immigration priorities that would eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery, Breitbart News reported.
In a statement following Trump’s detailed list of immigration priorities, Democratic leaders released a statement saying the White House “can’t be serious” with such reforms.
Soon after the Democrats’ statement on Trump’s immigration priorities, the mainstream media followed tune, with NBC News, the New York Times, POLITICO, and the Washington Post slamming the reforms as “hard-line” and a “posion pill.”
Just this week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) admitted that he did not even bother reading Trump’s immigration priorities, calling the 70-point list that included ending the Diversity Visa Lottery “non-starters.”
As Breitbart News reported, the elimination of the Diversity Visa Lottery was supported by Civil Rights icon Barbara Jordan, whose 1995 immigration subcommittee found that the program did not serve the national interest of the American people.
What’s the saying?
Not every muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist is a muslim.
What is so wrong with profiling, vetting, checking, asking the fucking questions?
ISLAMOPHOBE!!! Until you are maimed or killed……..
Asking those questions is RAYCISSSSSSSSS…
Progressive Dems demand a gun ban saying “it would be worth it if it saved one life”. So, we respond with a demand for an immigrant ban “it would be worth it if it saved one life” – with pictures of the bodies in New York…
Diversity is a mental disorder. It is completely unnatural. I can’t think of any place you find it in nature unless you call a garden natural. Even plants choke each other out.
Plants are smarter than we are…
I don’t know about you – but just looking at that ‘puke’ – that fucking beard – he’d be on the next boat back home.
Every 3 months these misfits need to report to ICE – and make sure they are clean shaven – otherwise they’re out.
We need ‘fucked up beard’ vetting.
I was posting while you were. Great minds think alike!
It’d make a dent in the Mormon problem, too.
“We need ‘fucked up beard’ vetting”
I laffed way too hard over this.
Nice picture of the mooslim. Handsome. Kind eyes. Neatly trimmed facial hair. Nice smile … he looks so happy.
Whatever new immigration plan Trump might get passed, the last vetting question should be;
“Does the applicant LOOK like a fucken terrorist?”
If “yes”, notify applicant to stay in his shitfuk country and go fuck a camel. This small addition will exclude 99% of mooslim-fuks … the most miserably unhappy looking sob’s on the planet.
I’ve said it before – they are plain ugly.
I don’t want to be picky Stucky – but it’s a fuckin’ terrorist – not a fucken terrorist – it’s important if that phrase is put into the statute.
Load up on Bunny, Flower, and candle stocks.
Look at that motherfucker. Now ask yourself, what does he, and every other dirtbag like him, do for a living? Only plausible answer, he’s a grifter off the welfare system. He has no language skills, he has no job skills, he has no hygiene skills. Would you have him in your business? Look closely at every article you see written about this dirtbag today, nobody asks that question, where does he get his money? If you want to put a little heat on this issue, every post you make, everywhere you post anything, start asking that question. It’s the weak point of all liberal thinking. They can’t support themselves. There’s no such thing as a liberal Hardscrabble Farmer. Think about it. A friend of mine has a good theory about how your thinking goes, depending on how many tires you own. If you own trucks and equipment you might have a hundred tires touching the ground, any of which one might be flat and ruin your day at any time. Your average person has a handful, it doesn’t seem like such a big deal. Hardscrabble has mouths to feed, same principle. Every family member, every chicken, every cow, every dog, has to be fed every day. And they’ve all got to earn their keep if they want to get fed. Making America great again isn’t hard. It’s putting people back to work. It really is that simple. And certainly, anyone we bring here needs to be able to support themselves. We have laws on the books that state exactly that. Simple enforcement of those laws would go a long way towards making America a better country.
Yes – nobody asks questions. I found out he was ticketed in PA for truck violations. Who the fuck would hire this guy to drive a truck?
Comes here on a ‘Diversity Visa’ – well how is he gonna live? What kind of job can he get? Suppose we dumped you in China – WTF would you do?
‘Diversity Visa’ – that proves it – 8 people dead and 15 injured – due to diversity.
The Libs want to say “we’re all immigrants” – Well I have a comeback to that: No – we were founders, we founded and built this country. These fucking ‘immigrants’ are here to enjoy the fruits of our and our forefathers labor.
Shocked that people are blaming mohammedanism for a simple traffic accident.
AMERICA MUST DO SOMETHING TO STOP VAN VIOLENCE!!!
I propose a 30-day waiting period on van rentals, 300% tax on “assault vans”, and most importantly, prohibiting white men from renting vans under any circumstances, while choosing not to prosecute when Muslims kill people with vans, because diversity.
We all MUST do this – for the childrens!!! (Because without the childrens, the cheese pizza types, and diversity-lottery winners, wouldn’t have anyone to screw!)
AAVV – Americans Against Van Violence. Please send donations (no less than $20) to TBP.
Aaaaaaand once again we are told he was attending a radical mosque and the feds were watching him and interviewed him etc etc. I think it might be appropriate to seize the mosque and use it for a controlled burn for fire department training.
Dhimmicrats want to close churches for being pro-life but have no problem with mosques where they plot treason, insurrection, terrorism, murder………..
We have an immigration problem and a Progtard problem and they are linked.
Everytime there is a terrorist attack, the Feds report that they were watching the perp. I’m calling bullshit on that. The Feds are too busy trying to find nude pictures of people on their computers.
Dance Macabre Group
Diogenes
So he was 22 when he came. How does that qualify as a “child.”
He has the mind of a child.
You’re talking about Schumer, or the van-a-terrist?
Chuck U Schummer needs to STFU and own this goat fuck…
Cuomo da Cunt spent 5 minutes of today’s presser sermonizing about NOT politicizing the tragedy.
5 minutes later … criticizes Trump’s “inappropriate” tweets.
If I wasn’t so damned non violent I would wish someone double-tap that motherfucker. But, I am Spirit-filled, so I won’t.
Obama’s legacy changing the face of America killing us all a little at a time . At 8 to 1 we will be desperate in no time . It’s all in the plan and we will not like the outcomes . Especially if you are an uncorrupted white American
Eight to one? It’s called a target-rich environment. Have you put in your range time this month?
If we don’t build the Wall, TPTB will do something somewhere so that millions of people (mostly Terrorist) will flood in here like they did into Europe; we will have the choice of machine gunning them at the border or having them settled down in our neighborhoods. Support Trump or TPTB’s next choice for POTUS could make Obama and Harpy look like Benevolent Christian Patriots.
TPTB inserted Rainbow colored paper links (called Diversity) into our once strong American Cultural Chain. The damage done has become self-evident in Public Education, the Government, the SCOTUS, the MSM, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, Hollywood, and will soon to become apparent in Defense (as our two Keystone Cop Destroyers that ran into Tankers demonstrated).
Democrats and their supporters are so damned reliably predictable.
The right has justifiably been talking about the diversity lottery that let this guy in and how Trump,among others,has tried to kill it.
So guess what-the Dems are again trying to bring up the impeachment of Trump.