This diversity lottery is the most INSANE part of our screwed-up immigration law. It was devised by Teddy Kennedy to inflict Maximum Damage.
If you are some brilliant PhD with top-notch technical skills from India and you apply for a Green Card, you are in for an 8 to 10 year trip through Bureaucrat Hell.
Whereas any random bloke can walk in off the street in Yemen, toss his name into a hat in our embassy, and become the lucky winner of one Green Card.
Islamist hellhole countries actually get priority over “oversubscribed” countries, which is absolutely nuts!
I once spoke to an Irish guy who won the diversity lottery. He told me he had entered it as the result of a pub bet with his friends! And once he won, figured, “hell, I may as well go”.
These are NOT the immigrants we want coming to this country.
Next to letting illegal aliens stay forever and keep appealing until they win.
Another dirty little secret is that it does NOTHING to ensure diversity, quite the opposite. Also a few countries are excluded because they have a large share of immigrants already here.
However, everything else is thrown into a common pot and drawn at random. If you guessed that the share of people from $#*+hole countries who apply (and ultimately win) is close to 98%, then go to the head of the class.