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White House officials rolled out a list of 15 visa-lottery jihadis and chain-migration terrorists to pressure Democrats towards a compromise on the president’s “framework” amnesty-and-immigration plan. The February 2 list of jihadis includes a senior leader in the Islamic counter-attack against personal freedom, Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook. He is an “alleged United States Hamas leader [who] received his green card through a predecessor program to the visa lottery,” said the statement. “Marzook was deported in 1997 for terrorist activities.” The statement backs up Trump’s speech in the State of the Union speech, where he urged elimination of the visa lottery...

A near-final draft of the White House’s unlimited and forever amnesty bill says the administration wants $25 billion for a wall over the next five years, and will not cancel chain-migration or visa-lottery inflows until the last of the 4 million foreigners now in the pipeline have arrived in the 2030s. The amnesty is dubbed the Security, Enforcement, and Compassion United Reform Effort Act, or SECURE Act. It is based on the SUCCEED Act developed by Sen. Thom Tillis and Sen. James Lankford, and it offers amnesty to an unlimited number of people, without any ending date. Overall, the amnesty...

Donald Trump has drawn a line in the sand on deal to keep the government operating past January 19.  Democrats are demanding that Trump address the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, which would legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.  They say they won't vote to fund the government past the January 19 deadline unless DACA provisions are included. Trump has upped the ante by making funding the border wall part of the deal, as well as the elimination of "chain migration" and the visa lottery.  Trump is making the Democrats pay a heavy price for DACA by tying his...

The Justice Department moved Monday to strip citizenship from four Somali immigrants who prosecutors say lied about being a family, and managed to defraud the Diversity Visa Lottery program that Republicans are aiming to nix. The government says one woman, Fosia Abdi Adan, won the lottery in 2000 and then brought in two other people as her husband and children, using a fake marriage certificate. The prosecutions come a week after the Diversity Lottery was in the news as the immigration program used by the suspect in last week’s terrorist truck attack in New York City. “The current immigration system...

The recent Islamic terror attack in New York City by a visa carrying jihadist outlines crystal clearly, how critical it is for America to enhance its permeable vetting process, and eliminate the suicidal “Diversity Lottery Visa Program.”Even if critical National Security-minded legislation such as the RAISE Act, put forth by Sens. Tom Cotton (AR) and David Perdue (GA), were to be passed, which it no doubt should be, the radical left will likely still find a way to subvert it.It is one of the most settled aspects of constitutional law that a president has the authority to exclude, or deport...

Hillary Clinton criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday over his response to Tuesday’s deadly terror attack in New York. On the “Daily Show,” the former secretary of state slammed her 2016 presidential election rival for immediately looking for someone to blame in the aftermath of the horrific incident in which eight people were killed. Trump blamed the attack, where a man drove a rental truck down a bike path and struck several people, on the diversity visa lottery program. The program allowed 29-year-old suspect Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov to legally immigrate to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010....

The revised online registration period for the DV-2019 Program begins on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and concludes on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST). All entries made prior to October 18, 2017, will need to be resubmitted for the entrant to be considered. We regret the inconvenience to Diversity Visa entrants. In order to ensure fairness and protect the integrity of the process for all those concerned, however, we must restart the entry process for this year. If you entered before Wednesday, October 18, 2017, that entry will...

Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public-health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid. The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going. On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world. Yes, it’s completely random, like a Powerball drawing. Up to 55,000 lucky winners...

Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going.On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world. Yes, it's completely random like a Powerball drawing. Up to 55,000 lucky winners will...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A computer glitch corrupted the State Department's annual worldwide lottery for U.S. immigrant visas and the results will be scratched, the Obama administration said Friday, disappointing tens of thousands of would-be immigrants who were notified this year that they had won a chance to come and live legally in the United States. Nearly 15 million people had entered the 2012 lottery hoping to win one of 50,000 U.S. immigrant visas available under a wild-card program for people who otherwise would have little hope of getting a coveted U.S. visa.

...When the House begins its business on Friday morning, around 50 amendments (including two good immigration-related amendments) will receive 10 minutes of debate each, after which there will be a series of rollcall votes on these amendments. Hopefully, H.R. 1 will receive a full floor vote by late Friday afternoon. The good immigration-related amendments could include a one-year moratorium on the visa lottery and a ban on further action against Arizona...Here's a description of the four amendments... No. 225 by Rep. Goodlatte of Virginia to ban the State Department from using funds to carry out the Visa Lottery. This amendment...

Law students will be available at the University of Nebraska College of Law on Sunday, November 16 from 1-5 p.m. to provide free help to eligible foreign nationals who want to take part in the diversity visa lottery. The diversity visa lottery is conducted once per year by the U.S. State Department. The lottery offers a chance at permanent residency for foreign nationals whose home country is under-represented in the United States' population. To participate in the lottery applicants must ensure that they are eligible and must fill out an online form. For several years the College of Law's Immigration...

<p>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.</p>

<p>A small red flannel mojo bag stuffed with herbs and amulets dangles from the side of Patrice Lyman's computer screen.</p> <p>The charm isn't meant to ward off technology traumas. Lyman recently entered the annual Diversity Visa Lottery. If her name is selected in a random drawing by a U.S. immigration service computer, Lyman will win a chance to apply for legal-resident status in the United States.</p>

By NATASHIA GREGOIRE ngregoire@tampatrib.com Published: Oct 14, 2002 TAMPA - Fadi Akhtar won his future in a lottery - a government green card lottery. And Broadway, here he comes. The annual Diversity Visa Lottery gives 55,000 winners an opportunity to apply for highly sought-after cards making them permanent U.S. residents. Akhtar, 25, a University of South Florida graduate student from Kuwait, is among winners of the 2002 lottery who are in the process of receiving or applying for their green cards. Chances of winning are slim. About 8 million foreign citizens enter the lottery each year. And obtaining a green...

Visa lottery under scrutiny 4 legal entrants tied to violence Julia Malone - Cox Washington Bureau Wednesday, October 9, 2002 Washington --- The Egyptian man who shot and killed two at the Los Angeles airport on July 4, the Pakistani teenager who plotted to blow up power plants in South Florida and two Moroccans recently indicted as members of a terrorist cell in Detroit have at least one thing in common. All were in the United States legally because of a once-obscure but increasingly controversial Diversity Visa Lottery. Each year the program awards 55,000 residency permits on the basis of...

The media have surfeited us with wall-to-wall-carpet coverage of the anniversary of 9/11, posing soul-searching questions. How has 9/11 changed America, and what are we doing to make sure there is never a repeat attack? Appearing on Meet the Press, Vice President Dick Cheney pronounced 9/11 a "watershed event." It gave us a new way of looking at how we defend America, he said. Yes, our government has a new way of looking at how we defend America. But all the looking seems to be at war on the other side of the world and at monitoring Americans in their...

US announces visa lottery AMMAN (JT) — The United States government has announced the annual immigrant visa lottery programme, an embassy statement said on Friday. The lottery is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of the Immigration and Nationality Act. It makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Applications will be chosen randomly by computer, and winners only will be notified by mail.Instruction sheets in English and Arabic with detailed information on how to apply will be distributed...

<p>WASHINGTON - Despite a post-Sept. 11 emphasis on sharing information, the government each year deliberately shreds millions of unsuccessful immigration applications containing personal details and photographs that some officials say could help in the war against terrorism.</p> <p>Many applicants are from countries the U.S. government considers sponsors or harborers of terrorists, officials said.</p>