Posted on 07/05/2013 7:02:49 PM PDT by La Lydia
WASHINGTON — Francis Nkam was happy in Cameroon. He had gone to college, had gotten his bachelor’s degree in education and was teaching high school. But greater opportunity called in America, and rather than spend the money on a visa application, Nkam entered the visa lottery...On his seventh try, Nkam won a visa, and he immigrated to the U.S. in 2003...
Supporters of the Diversity Visa Program say it opens up pathways for people such as Nkam from underrepresented countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean countries. Critics, though, say it’s rampant with fraud in the application process. Now the program is in danger of being eliminated, as the Senate killed it in its recent immigration overhaul and a similar fate awaits it in the House of Representatives. The House already voted to cancel the program last November.
Part of the Immigration Act of 1990, the Diversity Visa Program was intended to create new avenues for residents of countries that were underrepresented in America’s immigration melting pot, offering permanent resident visas to 50,000 lucky winners each year. Natives of countries with fewer than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the past five years are eligible for entry. Each year, based on immigration data, countries are added or removed from the lottery-eligible list...
As recently as last year, the program displayed crucial weaknesses. Faulty programming led false results of the 2012 lottery to be posted online, informing many prospective immigrants that they’d been selected for green cards when they had not been. Fraudulent third-party organizations have coerced cash from immigrant-hopefuls with promises that they have sway with lottery officials. Security officials and lawmakers have suggested that the program threatens national security, citing the difficulties of performing background checks in many eligible countries and the acceptance of applicants from state sponsors of terrorism...
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Enforce existing law.
Why are Republicans implementing Obama’s Amnesty Agenda?
Anyone who can make to Northern Mexico is good to go. Just ask Jeb, and Juan, and Linda, and Rubio, etc.
GWB, too.
ROTFL! More like somebody has been smoking pot. Wearing America flag T-shirts, saying the Pledge of Allegiance, teaching American history in OUR schools, speaking English only, chanting U..S..A at sporting events are all some of the things being banned in OUR country so we won't offend those being "melted". America isn't a "melting pot" anymore. It's a pressure cooker.
If given the choice between importing Mexicans or importing sub-Saharan Africans, I’ll take the Mexicans. At least Mexicans will work. Africans bring nothing of value whatsoever to this country. If I’m wrong, please feel free to educate me.
I see nothing wrong with walling off African Immigrants an Immigrants from the Caribbean until such time that we can have the ones we’ve got acclimate to our Society.
I would also Lockout immigrants from the Southern Hemisphere until we get that under control.
Ideally, I'd like only to import hot Ukrainian chicks but I doubt I'll get my wish.
Most of these people had nice bank accounts and high levels of education and would likely make great Americans. Unfortunately, they were swamped in this lottery by turd worlders and had about as much chance of winning as Dr. Thomas Sowell would have of getting elected U.S. Senator from California.
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