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We Gambled with Ebola and Lost
Let us finally end the crazy “diversity” visa lottery.
Let us finally end the crazy “diversity” visa lottery.
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 snag permanent residency visas (green cards), which put them on the path to American citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to this country.
The green-card-lotto winners’ spouses and unmarried children under
21 all get golden tickets into the country too, no matter where they
were born.Illegal aliens are eligible if a legal family member
wins the jackpot. No outstanding abilities, training, or job skills are
necessary. A handful of countries are excluded if they no longer
qualify as “underrepresented.” But if you come from a terror-sponsoring
or terror-friendly nation — such as Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, or
more than a dozen officially designated terror enablers on the State
Department’s list — no worries. Thousands from these breeding grounds
for jihad will walk through our front doors.
This is what happens when bipartisan panderers in Washington get their way. The visa lottery was championed by left-wing social engineer Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 to admit more “underrepresented” immigrant minorities into the U.S. Although it was originally intended to give a leg up to Irish illegal aliens who had overstayed their visas, most of the winners now hail from non-Western terror hot spots and hostile territories.
You know who else will get in? Untold numbers of “diversity” petitioners from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other West African countries where the Ebola virus is epidemic. If you think the feds will ensure that foreign visa-seekers with communicable diseases stay out, think again. The State Department now allows applicants with HIV to apply and enter. Those who suffer from tuberculosis, leprosy, or other afflictions “of public health significance” can apply for waivers.
Reports indicate that before his departure from Liberia to Texas last week, Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan lied at the airport about being in contact with someone exposed to the disease. So far, the White House refuses to impose any travel restrictions from West Africa. It’s also not clear whether the U.S. has rescreened West Africans who won last year’s DV game and are flying into the country now.
As I’ve reported for the past twelve years, enforcement and screening procedures are shoddy. The General Accounting Office deemed the DV program a national-security risk in 2008, while State Department and Homeland Security officials blamed each other for reckless incompetence.
“Consular officers at six of the posts reviewed — Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nepal), Lagos (Nigeria) and Warsaw (Poland) — reported that the availability of fake documents, or genuine documents with false information, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, and passports, presented significant challenges when verifying DV applicants’ identities and the relationship between the principal DV applicants and their spouse and dependents,” the GAO reported.
The Diversity Visa lottery program is a public-health hazard and a national-security risk that leaves our safety to random chance. But pleas to curtail or end the program since the 9/11 attacks have fallen on deaf ears.
In the wake of the Ebola scare (not to mention renewed jihadi threats from abroad), worried Americans are heading to the drugstore to stock up on facemasks, hand sanitizer, and gloves. New vaccines are in the works for emerging global contagions.
Unfortunately, there is no antidote for our government’s blind and deadly diversity worship. Political correctness is a plague on us all.
— Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies (Regnery, 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com. © 2014 Creators.com
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 snag permanent residency visas (green cards), which put them on the path to American citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to this country.
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This is what happens when bipartisan panderers in Washington get their way. The visa lottery was championed by left-wing social engineer Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 to admit more “underrepresented” immigrant minorities into the U.S. Although it was originally intended to give a leg up to Irish illegal aliens who had overstayed their visas, most of the winners now hail from non-Western terror hot spots and hostile territories.
You know who else will get in? Untold numbers of “diversity” petitioners from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other West African countries where the Ebola virus is epidemic. If you think the feds will ensure that foreign visa-seekers with communicable diseases stay out, think again. The State Department now allows applicants with HIV to apply and enter. Those who suffer from tuberculosis, leprosy, or other afflictions “of public health significance” can apply for waivers.
Reports indicate that before his departure from Liberia to Texas last week, Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan lied at the airport about being in contact with someone exposed to the disease. So far, the White House refuses to impose any travel restrictions from West Africa. It’s also not clear whether the U.S. has rescreened West Africans who won last year’s DV game and are flying into the country now.
As I’ve reported for the past twelve years, enforcement and screening procedures are shoddy. The General Accounting Office deemed the DV program a national-security risk in 2008, while State Department and Homeland Security officials blamed each other for reckless incompetence.
“Consular officers at six of the posts reviewed — Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nepal), Lagos (Nigeria) and Warsaw (Poland) — reported that the availability of fake documents, or genuine documents with false information, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, and passports, presented significant challenges when verifying DV applicants’ identities and the relationship between the principal DV applicants and their spouse and dependents,” the GAO reported.
The Diversity Visa lottery program is a public-health hazard and a national-security risk that leaves our safety to random chance. But pleas to curtail or end the program since the 9/11 attacks have fallen on deaf ears.
In the wake of the Ebola scare (not to mention renewed jihadi threats from abroad), worried Americans are heading to the drugstore to stock up on facemasks, hand sanitizer, and gloves. New vaccines are in the works for emerging global contagions.
Unfortunately, there is no antidote for our government’s blind and deadly diversity worship. Political correctness is a plague on us all.
— Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies (Regnery, 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com. © 2014 Creators.com
Ted Cruz: FAA needs to ensure Ebola victims are kept away from U.S.
The
FAA so far has responded to concerns about Ebola by saying it is
working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
which is taking the lead on responding to the threat.
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“Due to the Obama administration’s unclear approach to
addressing the threat of the Ebola virus, Americans — particularly the
Texans who have possibly been exposed — deserve specific answers to how
the administration is addressing travel to and from the countries
impacted by the disease,” Cruz said in a statement that accompanied the
letter.
addressing the threat of the Ebola virus, Americans — particularly the
Texans who have possibly been exposed — deserve specific answers to how
the administration is addressing travel to and from the countries
impacted by the disease,” Cruz said in a statement that accompanied the
letter.
(Also on POLITICO: Cruz: No plan on 2016)
In his letter, the Republican senator requests answers to a litany of
questions, including what kind of training air crews receive that would
help them recognize someone infected with Ebola, the extent to which
the FAA intends to act to limit or suspend flights, the notification
rights of passengers who may have shared a plane with an Ebola sufferer,
and any projections of how many additional people infected with Ebola
could arrive in the United States via air.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) also chimed in Thursday evening, saying
it’s “appropriate to review our policies for travel to and from the
countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/ted-cruz-faa-ebola-111568.html#ixzz3F65io3ll