Trump was referring to the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program .. https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/diversity-visa , which uses a computer lottery system to randomly issue up to 50,000 immigrant visas each year to qualified applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
At a Jan. 9 meeting .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-bipartisan-members-congress-immigration/ .. on immigration, Trump said: “They call it ‘visa lottery,’ I just call it ‘lottery.’ But countries come in and they put names in a hopper. They’re not giving you their best names; common sense means they’re not giving you their best names. They’re giving you people that they don’t want. And then we take them out of the lottery. And when they do it by hand — where they put the hand in a bowl — they’re probably — what’s in their hand are the worst of the worst.”
Trump grossly misrepresents how the program works. As we wrote .. https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/trumps-baseless-immigration-claim/ .. when Trump made similar remarks last month, there is no evidence that other countries are gaming the system and sending the U.S. “the worst of the worst.”
“It is a complicated and lengthy process,” explained Stephen W. Yale-Loehr .. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio_stephen_yale-loehr.cfm , who teaches immigration law at Cornell Law School. “Among other things, the consular officer must make sure the individual is not ‘inadmissible.’ This means that the person has not committed a crime, doesn’t have a serious health problem, isn’t a terrorist, hasn’t committed fraud, and hasn’t overstayed in the U.S. before.”
“The diversity lottery is a true lottery,” Yale-Loehr also told us. “There is no way a foreign government can game the lottery to offload the worst of their citizenry.”
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In the post, Tapper fact checks Trump and diversity lottery https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137697464 as well as the video, there are four articles looking at Trump's proposals in relation to the Canadian and Australian policies. He lauds them, however Trump wants an end to chained migration, yet it exists in both the Canadian and Australian systems.
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