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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1036603)	11/2/2017 10:49:56 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573958

How we got the diversity visa lottery: The visa program is called the Diversity Visa Lottery. I traced the legislative history of it. Here's a summary. 1/ Anna O. Law added, New York terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov entered US under visa program Trump wants to end newsweek.com … The program was created by powerful and well placed Italian and Irish American Senators and Reps to help their co-ethnics immigrate. 2/ They argued that the "old seed" immigrant groups were being shut out by newer groups from Asia and Latin America.Under the US immigration 3/ system, U can immigrate permanently only if you have CLOSE relatives or employment skills a US employer needs. t.co 4/ Having a cousin or aunt ain't gonna get U a green card. Some Irish and Italians came and overstayed and became undocumented. 5/ They couldn't "get legal" b/c they lacked the close family connections or job skills. Their co-ethnic Members of Congress stepped in. 6/ It was pork barrel legislation designed to benefit very specific groups. The lottery was created w/ a formula to make eligible only 7/ persons from nations who had sent a small # of peeps to the US; it obviated the need for family ties/job skills. The "diversity" language 8/ was window dressing and branding to sell it. Was politically smarter a label than a visa for "peeps with no family ties or job skills." 9/ 40% of the visas for the 1st 3 yrs of the lottery were reserved for Ireland. Also not a free or open lottery since many countries 10/ and their nationals banned b/c they contributed allegedly too many immigrants already. The program cynically brought back considerations 11/ of national origins to the equation instead of focusing on the individual attributes of the would-be immigrant. 12/