Noem has suspended the 1990 \u00ab\u00a0Diversity Visa\u00a0\u00bb lottery program after the revelation that the Brown University shooter was a 2017 beneficiary.<\/b>
\nHomeland Security Chief Kristi Noem has suspended the long-established \u201cDiversity Visa\u201d lottery program after the revelation that the Brown University shooter was a beneficiary in 2017.
\u201cThis heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,\u201d Noem announced late Thursday, adding:
In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.
At President Trump\u2019s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
The killer, Claudio Neves Valente, was a Portuguese national who won the lottery in 2017. He allegedly killed two people \u2014 a Portuguese nuclear scientist and a conservative activist.
Trump tried to block the program during his first term, and his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently tightened oversight of the winners.
But neither Trump nor Noem can stop the Democrat-backed program, which has imported 50,000 new migrants per year from countries with diverse cultures and conflicts. Each year\u2019s wave of 55,000 winners becomes far larger as the winners gradually import their family members.
The program was created in 1990 by Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and then-Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). It was intended to expand the inflow of chaotic diversity into the United States. The first beneficiaries were Irish citizens, but it now imports people from incompatible cultures in Sudan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Paraguay, and many other countries. The program has welcomed many Muslim migrants into Schumer\u2019s home state.
The program is welcomed by business groups because it imports additional consumers, renters, and workers \u2014 and because it forces up government spending on welfare.
The resulting civic chaos \u2014 including crime and terrorist attacks \u2014 and imported poverty allow progressives in state and federal governments to play a larger role in American society.
Former President Barack Obama is defending the imported diversity as a historic \u201cexperiment\u201d on Americans\u2019 democracy.
\u201cThere\u2019s never been an experiment like this, where you have people from every corner of the globe show up in one place,\u201d Obama said in September, adding:
[We] say, based on these ideals \u2014 we hold these truths to be self-evident\u2026 all men are created equal\u2026 and a constitution and a Bill of Rights and a democracy \u2014 that we can somehow figure out how to get along and maintain our private beliefs and pray to God in our own ways, and retain aspects of the cultures that we bring from wherever it is that we\u2019re coming from, and yet still decide that we are all Americans\u2026 and try to make it better for each successive generation.
\u201cI think George W. Bush believed that [it is possible]\u2026 I know John McCain believed it. I know Mitt Romney believed it,\u201d Obama added at 23 minutes.
Many foreign countries lose out when their young people migrate to the United States.
Most of the fortunate diversity winners are relatively well-educated and diligent compared to their fellow nationals. So the program extracts promising young people from developing countries \u2014 and slows the sending nation\u2019s economic development. In the United States, the inflow of migrants pushes young Americans into lower-wage jobs throughout the United States.
Trump does have the ability to suspend the award process and has the authority under the 212(f) law to block the entry of any selected winners.<\/p>\n