U.S. visa lottery called a threat

Washington Times ^ | Friday, April 30, 2004 | By Stephen Dinan

[JohnHuang2]

The State Department's deputy inspector general said yesterday that despite new fraud protections, the diversity visa-lottery program, which issues 55,000 green cards to foreign nationals annually, is a prime opportunity for criminals and enemies of the United States to enter the nation.

[holyscroller]

Let's just shut down all immigration until they can figure out who the desirables are that we want, and clean out the millions of illegals who shouldn't be here in the first place.

[fdsa2]

Holy crap, there really is a visa lottery. I have always thought and treated the emails containing information about it like any other viagra spam email...

[sarcasm]

The State Department's deputy inspector general said yesterday that despite new fraud protections, the diversity visa-lottery program, which issues 55,000 green cards to foreign nationals annually, is a prime opportunity for criminals and enemies of the United States to enter the nation.

Thank you Ted Kennedy.

[DustyMoment]

U.S. visa lottery called a threat

Gee, no sh . . . kidding!! We knew this at least 2 years ago when this story first broke.

What I can't fathom is why our own State Department is so anti-American and why they want to facilitate the rapid destruction of the US. Mediocrity, it seems, is both a goal and objective of these people.

[taxed2death]

.....actually I think a prime way for enimies of the United States to get into the US is through Cochise county Arizona, where thousands slip over our porous border every 24 hours.

[NewRomeTacitus]

"Also, fraud is widespread, with people filing multiple applications under different names to increase their chances of being selected. If they are selected under one of the false names, they then obtain fraudulent documents to back up their application.
Ms. Patterson said in 2002, 85 percent of winners from Bangladesh were rejected, indicating both a high level of fraud but a heightened awareness at that particular post."

Yet corporations and whole states can't entrust their critical records to India fast enough. Stupid all around.