America’s immigration system needs to be overhauled.
A federal immigration initiative launched three decades ago continues funneling approximately 500,000 foreign nationals into American communities every 10 years based solely on geographic origin rather than skills, merit, or security considerations.
According to Breitbart, Secretary Kristi Noem of the Department of Homeland Security disclosed Friday that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the Portuguese citizen facing charges for fatal shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gained American entry in 2017 after winning selection through this visa distribution system.
The random selection mechanism distributes as many as 55,000 immigration permits annually to applicants from numerous countries. Recipients hail from nations including Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Yemen, and Uzbekistan, several of which maintain well-documented connections to terrorist organizations.
Foreign nationals receiving these permits obtain green cards authorizing permanent American residence without demonstrating employment capabilities, family relationships, or specialized skills. Population diversification remains the program’s exclusive rationale.
Statistical analysis spanning Fiscal Year 2012 through Fiscal Year 2022 shows the visa distribution system relocated more than 461,000 foreign nationals into communities throughout the United States.
Beyond Valente, this immigration pathway granted American entry to Ruslan Maratovich Asainov in 1999, who later received conviction for Islamic State terrorism activities. Uzbek citizen Sayfullo Saipov also entered through the same channel before commandeering a truck in New York City and killing eight pedestrians in 2017.
President Donald Trump responded to that 2017 mass casualty incident by urging Democrats to collaborate with Republicans on terminating the visa distribution program. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) championed the legislative initiative, yet Congress never approved the proposal despite sustained advocacy.
Responding to the Brown University incident, Secretary Noem announced that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will temporarily halt the program’s operations.
“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem stated officially.
Fixing the lottery system is a good start, but if there’s no effort to follow up with the implementation of an immigration moratorium, E-Verify, and efforts to end chain migration–among other forms of immigration restriction–the United States is destined to become a major non-white polity within a decade or two.
