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30,000 “diversity” visas issued to people from jihad terror-sponsoring countries since 2007

Nov 14, 2017 10:47 am By Robert Spencer

What could possibly go wrong, you racist, bigoted “Islamophobe”? What are a few people killed in jihad massacres? It’s the price of “diversity”!

“30,000 visas issued to people from terror-sponsoring countries since 2007: State Department,” by Brooke Singman, Fox News, November 13, 2017:

The United States issued nearly 30,000 visas to people from nations officially designated as sponsors of terrorism over the last decade through the Diversity Visa “lottery” program, the White House said Monday.

According to State Department statistics, since 2007, the U.S. has admitted 20,739 individuals from Iran; 7,232 from Sudan, and 812 from Syria through the Visa Lottery program –Iran, Sudan and Syria are currently the only countries designated by the State Department as “state sponsors of terrorism.”

The program offers a lottery for up to 50,000 immigrant visas annually, “drawn from random selection among all entries to individuals who are from countries with low rates of immigration” to the U.S., according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services.

That random selection, according to the State Department, is through a computer-generated drawing for foreign nationals to apply for permanent residence, or a green card, in the U.S. each year.

The program originated as part of a bill introduced in 1990 by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., then a member of the House. Schumer’s measure to make a set number of visas available to “diversity immigrants” from certain countries was absorbed into a larger House immigration bill, which was sponsored by Schumer and 31 others, including several Republicans.

That bill was ultimately passed in a bipartisan vote, and was signed by President George H.W. Bush.

But despite the bipartisan passage of the program, President Trump has called for its elimination, and the termination of chain migration, which happens when immigrants can enter the country, simply to be united with a relative already living in the U.S.

Trump’s latest calls for these programs to end stemmed from the revelations that the ISIS-sympathizer, Sayfullo Saipov, who allegedly carried out the Halloween terror attack in New York City that killed eight and injured 11, entered the U.S. through the lottery system in 2010 from Uzbekistan.

“I am calling on Congress to TERMINATE the diversity visa lottery program that presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security,” Trump tweeted earlier this month following the attack. “Congress must end chain migration so that we can have a system that is SECURITY BASED! We need to make AMERICA SAFE! #USA.”…

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  1. RichardL says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 10:57 am

    I always thought the Green Card Lottery would be an internet scam. Until a friend of mine told me that this is how he got to be an American. He is a major in the US Army, best SOF officer I ever trained with. Pole. Catholic.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 1:16 pm

      A lottery is neutral as long as it is completely honest and free of tampering.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 11:21 am

    What foolishness and madness this “Diversity Program” is . The folly and recklessness of the heinous diversity program may be seen by the example of that Halloween NYC jihad attack
    That murderous Muslim terrorist is a name whose first name means “The sword of Allah, this vicious jihadist who murdered rand maimed all those people in New York City is a man who is a foreigner and entered the USA by a “Diversity Visa” This exposes the dangers, folly and foolishness of such PC Diversity programs.
    The need for a national travel ban concerning all those unvetted Muslim migrants who desire to enter the United States of America is very important. This may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life.” The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will chance an evil and dangerous nature.
    So it may be with those many Muslim immigrants who want to enter the USA. It only takes of few jihadist/vipers inflect jihad terrorism of awful murderous disaster on different cities of this nation.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 11:31 am

    What naive people are they who are holding up that banner . Let’s hope those people holding the banner don’t find out the hard way just how dangerous a jihad -minded Muslim may actually be.

  4. mariam rove says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 11:39 am

    Most of these diversity visas are from some of biggest s…hole. In fact I am 100% sure the western EU citizens are not qualified to apply for them. M

    • mortimer says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 1:18 pm

      MR, I agree if you are saying we want ‘extreme vetting’. Good candidates from this program can do a lot of good.

      Don’t punish the innocent for the guilty.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 14, 2017 at 10:02 pm

        Mortimer, I don’t think we should take immigrants from Muslim countries unless they can prove they are threatened Infidels.

    • Stan Lee says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 9:44 pm

      Ms. Rove: In 2002, my wife and I met a young lady employed in a ladies fashionable footwear store.
      She had a European accent which we thought was Russian. We were close, except she and her family, including both parent and their three children (of which the shoe store clerk was one), had been admitted to our country via an immigration lottery prize the family had been awarded.. She, mother and father were employed shortly after arrival, two of her siblings were attending school, all spoke English, Russian, and Latvian (their country of birth for entire family)
      I have no illusions that these folks were typical, maybe so in 2002, but hardly today, unfortunately.

  5. anotherJWReader says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 11:39 am

    Trump is too emotional. There is a restriction for some countries. It is simple to add more countries to it. No need to abandon the whole program. I see how brain wash and manipulation in this matter goes. Trump doesn’t seem t think things through. Very superficial for a president. Hilary would be worse though.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 1:19 pm

      All those who enter should be vetted. No terrorists or advocates of terrorism should enter.

  6. Paul N Silas says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    Oh goodie, more “targets” when the Tribulation comes!

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    With that generous but foolishness and folly of a “Diversity Program ” with it’s Diversity Visa’s its only a matter of time before a jihadist/Muslim with is murderous Islamic scheming engages in a jihad suicide/homicide attack in America. It occurred on October 31 in NYC and will ,no doubt, happen again.
    .
    For the sad and tragic reality of jihad-minded Muslims engaging in Islamic suicide/homicide bombings attacks is for a large part, the outcome the extreme brainwashing that is performed in Islamic mind programming centers which are mosques and madrasas. In those jihad mind control places students are thoroughly indoctrinated into the jihadist mindset of committing murderous bombing attacks in the jihad for the advancement of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.
    This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”
    In conclusion, just as that scorpion in the fable had proven himself by the dangerous and deadly, to self and others, because of his nature. The violent and murderous jihadists of Islam are as that scorpion, dangerous so self and other because they is their nature because they have been thought programmed in the ways of the violent and murdering jihad of Islam. As always stated above ,this is the sad and tragic reality of Islamic terrorism in today’s world.

  8. Paul N Silas says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    Truthfully, I HATE ISLAM AND COMMUNISM.

    However as a Christian, I feel so very sorry for those who’s minds have been captured by these Satanic cults.

    I God we trust- Come quickly Lord Jesus

  9. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:48 pm

    I wouldn’t be shocked if the 911 hijackers were on a diversity visa too.
    That scumbag who mauled people with a truck was a diversity visa turd.

  10. gravenimage says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    30,000 “diversity” visas issued to people from jihad terror-sponsoring countries since 2007
    ………………….

    And so there will be more and more Jihad terror attacks, and we are supposed to just accept this lest we be deemed “Islamophobes”. Suicidal insanity.

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