In the pantheon of ill-conceived public policies, our policy of admitting the vast majority of immigrants based on who they’re related to (in other contexts, known as nepotism) would have to rank right up there. But there is a subset of our immigration policy — little known to the American public until Sayfullo Saipov plowed a truck into a crowd of bicyclists and pedestrians on a beautiful Halloween afternoon in lower Manhattan — that actually makes family chain migration seem intelligent by comparison.
Saipov, a self-declared ISIS warrior, arrived in this country seven years ago from Uzbekistan as one of the 50,000 or so lucky winners of the annual Diversity Visa Lottery. Aside from killing eight people and injuring 12 more, Saipov managed to shine a spotlight on the fact that about 5 percent of the people who legally settle in the United States each year do so because their names were picked out of a (virtual) hat.
More:
http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/359009-trump-is-right-the-green-card-lotto-has-got-to-go
More:
http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/359009-trump-is-right-the-green-card-lotto-has-got-to-go
