Migrants in danger of losing a lottery for a green card if the GOP House wins in a fight
First on the fox: Republican legislators seek to end the Government program that “undermines national security” by allowing “an impersonal computer code” randomly distributes visas to migrants Through the lottery system, Fox News Digital learned.
A program of immigrant visa for diversity (DV program), which leads State Department, It holds an annual lottery where immigrants are awarded up to 55,000 green tickets, which are then approved by the status of a permanent population by random draw.
The program has been in political debate for years among the laws of laws that have caused concern for national security because of the random selection of migrants to receive residence, not to go through the selection process based on merit.
On Wednesday, Rev. Mike Collins, R-g. He presented the law on security and honesty for America of 2025, the first divided by Fox News Digital, which aims to end the Visa Lottery and remove the ability for the lottery winners to immediately sponsor family members for preferential green tickets.
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Ambassador Mike Collins, R-g, introduced a law on security and honesty for America of 2025. (Bill Clark)
“The visa diversity program is an unnecessary exercise in the signaling of the Government virtue. We opened our country to the almost endless migration system of the chain while throwing an arrow on a globe and letting an impersonal computer code to determine the path to citizenship for 50,000 immigrants,” Collins said in a statement.
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Collins added that “the end of the visible lottery is healthy” and that his proposal of the law “will reform our broken immigration system and reconcile our nations in the first immigration policy of America we need.”
The DV program currently enables applicants who meet a specific request for fulfillment of conditions for logging on the network. In order to apply, the applicants must come from countries with historically low immigration and finish at least high school education.
Migrants meet the border patrol in the San Diego sector on February 17th. (Fox News)
In 2017, several Republican legislators have caused concern about the lottery visa after winner of Sayfullo Saipov, a terrorist who was residing through the program in 2010, killed eight people in New York, driving a truck in a crowd on Halloween.
The second accused terrorist, Akayed Ullah, also received a visa through the program, according to the office of Republican senator John Boozman.
Cosponents of the Law PROPOSAL Include Republican Tail. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Ambassador Brandon Gill of Texas, Ambassador Mike Haridopos of Florida, Ambassador Daniel Webster of Florida, Rev. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin and Ambassador Troy Nehls from Texas.
Migrants on the front of the line are processed to enter US customs and border protection. (Jon Michael Raasch/Fox News Digital)
The legislation is also supported by the Heritage Foundation, the Conservative Research Center and the Nos, the Number of USA, the immigration reform group.
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“US visa owners should represent the best and most bridal immigrants from all over the world to share the commitment to improve US values,” said Ryan Walker, Executive Vice President Action Heritage Action in a statement shared with Fox. “Issuing Visa on the basis of arbitrary quota” diversity “undermines national security, limits opportunities for skillful talent and fails to encourage true diversity.”
